A Short Post on Blog URL Hacking

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2 pointsdylangs10302 comments

Unfortunately this is really bad advice from an SEO perspective. You want to have a short but SEO friendly url structure if you want users to find your content online via search engines.

Also, twitter automatically uses a url shortener, so the length of the url does not matter.

The URL shortener doesn't kick in universally for API protocols, so sometimes you are left with it only half-working.

The major point here is readability, however. I understand there's a lot of points that can be levied against it, but it's fairly true that one is more organized than the other.

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