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I like to squeeze amazon links to https://amazon.com/dp/B0085NTQJK https://amazon.com/dp/B0085NTQJK - removing the SEO inlining of the article name Removing th

• frosted-flakes 7y ago
  See, I actually like it when URLs contain human-readable text. Cryptic URLs like YouTube has are meaningless to me, requiring me to actually visit the page to see what it is. That's also why I dis-like link shorteners. I really like Stack Overflow's URLs because of how flexible they are. You can put anything in the title slug, since only the ID is used. When self-documenting links aren't useful, then you can omit the title slug completely. For example, these four links all point to the same page (in a code block so they don't get truncated): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37358364/rules-for-the-use-of-angle-brackets-in-typescript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37358364/typescript-angle-brackets https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37358364 https://stackoverflow.com/q/37358364
  • mehrdadn 7y ago
    You can put anything you want, but if it's not what the page expects, it will cause a redirect, which will slow down navigation just a bit.
• samatman 7y ago
  What I enjoy about Amazon links is that what comes after the product slug doesn't matter at all: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085NTQJK/Definitely-Not-Underpants/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085NTQJK/Definitely-Not-Underpan... I've had a few occasions to use this to good effect