SEO and html pages

[Sky]

I have been told that turning long miva generated url's into short html links is better for SEO. I have also been told that turning those long url's into the html links is not good and will knock us down to the bottom of the search engines.

Anybody know about this issue, is it true?

[Gamelord]

Re: SEO and html pages

Short links are said to help your SEO listings but having long links will not necessarily hurt your SEO listing. The biggest advantage with short links is it makes it much easier for people and yourself to send URL's to others, and also help you identify the page that your products are on (without all the coding clutter in long links).

If you are going to change your long links into short links, you should add in 301 redirects into your htaccess file. This will redirect the long links to the new short links. By doing this, you won't have any negative hit in the SEO listing as the new links slowly replace the long links over time.

Hope this helps.

[Korey]

Re: SEO and html pages

We've always had long ugly MIVA links and many of our products have appeared on first page of search engine organic results. For whatever that's worth...

[nottheusual1]

Re: SEO and html pages

Ditto here, Korey. We **think** having high non-commerce page PR has helped.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: SEO and html pages

just to clarify....short links (meta tags, titles, rhino horn, any one thing) will not necessarily improve your SE ranking/rating. Its one part of a large set of strategies. There is no "this will improve ranking/rating" technique. EVERY technique is PART of a larger set of methods.

So, does short links help? If done with many other things, yes. Is it necessary...no.