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I can think of a couple of impacts: - Shorter urls are easier to copy and share. + Keywords in the url may increase search engine rank. + Full title in the u
by primaryobjects 10y ago
I can think of a couple of impacts:
- Shorter urls are easier to copy and share.
+ Keywords in the url may increase search engine rank.
+ Full title in the url helps readers know what they're clicking.
There are advantages to having the full title in the url for both SEM and readers. However, as others mention, HN wasn't designed for SEM and contains no ads to profit from it.
- chipperyman573 10y ago>Full title in the url helps readers know what they're clicking. Almost every website I've seen lets you re-write the url. For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4eaqjb/something https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4eaqjb/something and https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4eaqjb/anything https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4eaqjb/anything both go to the same link.
- accounthere 10y agoHN could simply add a '&title='. No need to change anything in their routes, just change the link in the main page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11472694&title=ask-hn-seo-impact-of-hns-url https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11472694&title=ask-hn-s...