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cma
on June 25, 2011
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Google Bot Attempts to Crawl Shortest URLs First
I don't agree with the last point; seems like it would encourage things like foo.com/1hu83FG2 or lead to excessive abbreviation.
DrJokepu
on June 25, 2011
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If I remember correctly, your page ranks better in Google if the search terms are in the URL (even more so if they are in the hostname).
AshleysBrain
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Well, it's just a heuristic. Also, would you consider that level of abbreviation for your own site instead of descriptive names? You
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want users to be able to remember URLs if at all possible...
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