Url Structures at Barcamp Genk

URL SCHEMA’S Wie, wat, waar en waarom...

TOM Claus

@WEBRAIDER on Twitter

WEB DEVELOPER I make websites !!! No computers, cellphones or other grandma related stuff.

THEORY

“A URI scheme is the top level of the Uniform Resource Identiﬁer (URI) naming structure. All URIs and absolute URI references are formed with a scheme name, followed by a colon character (":")....” © Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme/

BLAH BLAH BLAH!... Wikipedia is your friend for nerdy info.

EXAMPLES

• http://www.domain.com/product/16%20/928/de/23 • http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=3737 • http://www.domain.com/products/1/product/12/ • http://www.domain.com/p.php?ﬁlter=37348&a=D

• http://www.domain.com/products/page/12/ • http://www.domain.com/products/ﬁlter/name • http://www.domain.com/products/order/desc/

THE GOOD ONE....

http://www.domain.com/products/

http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/

Stripped product title or Quicklink http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/

• No spaces: lorem%20ipsum → lorem-ipsum • No special chars: éàöçî:+%$”&

Now I change the product title...

404 Page not found! © Copyright Wallaper-s http://wallpaper-s.org/15__Oh-My-God,_Orangutan.htm

Product ID http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/123/

http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/123/ Redirect to new quicklink, based on your product ID http://www.domain.com/products/newlaptopname/123/

• http://www.domain.com/products/laptop/photos/ • http://www.domain.com/products/laptop/123/photos/ • http://www.domain.com/category/laptops/ • http://www.domain.com/page/disclaimer/

• http://www.domain.com/products?ﬁlter=name • http://www.domain.com/products?order=desc • http://www.domain.com/products?page=13

SHORTER = BETTER

• http://www.domain.com/laptop-product/123 • http://www.domain.com/category-name/ • http://www.domain.com/disclaimer/

EXAMPLES [AGAIN]

• SEO • READABLE LINKS • SHORT LINKS FOR COPY/PAST

• SEO • READABLE LINKS • SHORT LINKS FOR COPY/PAST •WHY NOT?!

JUST A REMINDER This is my personal view of good urls. I’m not creating a world standard.

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Url Structures at Barcamp Genk

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