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It's probably just a short URL is a heuristic for an important site. www.site.com/section is probably more important than www.site.com/section/subsection/detai
by AshleysBrain 15y ago
It's probably just a short URL is a heuristic for an important site. www.site.com/section is probably more important than www.site.com/section/subsection/detail/page/5/comments. A good move for the crawler - don't get distracted by "deep" pages - try and stick to high level ones first.
Edit: this would also encourage webmasters to use short URLs, which benefits users by being easier to remember, too.
- cma 15y agoI don't agree with the last point; seems like it would encourage things like foo.com/1hu83FG2 or lead to excessive abbreviation.
- DrJokepu 15y agoIf I remember correctly, your page ranks better in Google if the search terms are in the URL (even more so if they are in the hostname).
- AshleysBrain 15y agoWell, it's just a heuristic. Also, would you consider that level of abbreviation for your own site instead of descriptive names? You do want users to be able to remember URLs if at all possible...
- orijing 15y agoHow well-known is this to webmasters? If it's not well-known I cannot see how the second part could be. But the first could very much be true, and is what I would've surmised.