That last point of yours is why I feel the way I do: the slug is redundant. Then again, I'm not the kind of programmer to put SEO ahead of cleanliness.
For example, if the original URL were: http://myblog.com/articles/5/net-neutrality-and-you Then I'd expect the following URL to fail: http://myblog.com/articles/5/nothing-here (However, it would return a 200 status code with the same article). As a user, I would find that surprising, and as a user, I never want to be surprised. On Aug 26, 10:19 am, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 26, 1:38 am, Kevin <extemporalgen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I personally consider hybridized URLs like <http://myblog.com/articles/5/ > > net-neutrality-and-you> to be junk because there are two unique > > identifiers in the URL). > > Hi Kevin, > > Your post was interesting and I was curious about your strong view in > your comment above. > > I always thought this kind of URL was most useful for SEO. You can > correct misspelt slugs, and even improve slugs, without any previously > indexed URLs giving 404s. That's a huge benefit, isn't it? In any > case, in your URL example, I would say there's one identifier, the id. > The slug is redundant. > > Just wondering if I missed something... > Thanks, David
