What is SEO friendly URL?

[handmaderug]

What is SEO friendly URL?

[sophiawils59]

SEO friendly URLs are URLs that are designed to meet the needs of users and searchers. Specifically, URLs optimized for SEO tend to be short and keyword-rich.

[PoolMaster]

SEO Friendly URL is a well-optimized URL, which helps to understand the content of a website to search engine bots or crawlers and users at the same time. Creating SEO friendly URL is a method of making a set of URL’s which is expressive enough to access and understand by Bots (Search Engine Crawlers) and Humans (Website Visitors). There are several parameters which can follow to create or generate the best URL's.

[ritesh3592]

SEO friendly URL is nothing but making the URL structure in way that helps the site to achieve higher SEARCH RANKING and making the URL readable for both human and Google Crawler.

[MVMinfotech18]

SEO friendly URl is nothing but making the URL structure in way that helps the site to achieve higher SEARCH RANKING and making the URl readable for both human and Google Crawler.

These are few points to be considered to have a SEO friendly URL.

URL Readability
The URL should be easy to read for both users and GoogleCrawler. There is no compulsion that URL should be perfect according to pages but it should be Clean and Easy to read.

http://www.example.com/Category-a/blog-a (Good URL)
http://www.example.com/987823/re... (BAD URL)
Using Canonical Tag

Canonical Tags are used when the same content is used on many pages hence we use this tag .Google bot considers it all as a Single page.

Usually Canonical tag is used in Ecommerce sites
For Search ‘MANCHESTER UNITED T-SHIRTS”
It may have same products in a different order in different pages.

Page 1 : Tshirts ( Low to High Price Sorting )
Page 2 : Tshirts (High to Low Price Sorting)
Page 3 : Tshirts (Popularity Sorting )

Hence the crawler thinks all this as a single master page.
Avoid using Strange Characters in URL
‘ &,,$, # ….’
Creating XML Sitemaps
1. HTML sitemaps is for Users
2. XML is for GoogleCrawler
Avoid Keyword Stuffing in URL.
Use Short and Crisp URL
Create 301 redirection if required (Which transfers SEO ranking when domain is Shifted)

[mariajonas]

A friendly URL accurately describes the page using keywords that are easy to read for both search engines and users.

[RH-Calvin]

SEO friendly URLs are those that contain keywords and the webpage title in the domain URL. This helps crawlers and browsers read your URL and know about your webpage content easily.

[priyankaroy125]

Thanks for sharing the information.

[nikki shah]

A friendly URL accurately describes the page using keywords that are easy to read for both search engines and users.