Google/URL length question.

Hi everyone!

I'm working on a site with many long URLs with a lot of ? .php and such in them. I'm trying to use mod rewrite to make them both shorter and more "Google friendly" by making them all show as .html files. I have two main questions:

1) Does anyone know how long URLs Google "like"? I've heard they should not be too long.

2) Does anyone know what to avoid when making "Google friendly" URLs? I know making them to .html files is good. Anything else to think about?

Thanks!

 

1) hmm. thats new for me. at least I know looooong urls do get a pagerank. but if they actually appear in the engine I dunno.

2) lol yeah ppl on this forum have many for example make the url have keywords, the title, the backlink, the content, and you can go on and on on this.

reading a lot of topics on this forum is a start!

 

Google does not like urls with the term Id= or sid= followed by more than ten characters. It also does not like more than two (some say three) parameters in the URL.

I would suggest that you do some Google searches to see exactly how Google is treating URLs similar to yours.

 

I don't think the .html has any "Google friendly" advantage -- Google indexes php and asp and pdf and other extensions just fine. What is important is avoiding having more than a couple of variables (?...) after the URL.

 

I have sites that have one and two variables behind the ? and they were indexed, but it seemed to take a while. When I used mod rewrite to change them (to php extention BTW) it seemed liked Google picked them up twice as fast.

Definitly use keywords in your variables as well.