URL SCHEMA’S Wie, wat, waar en waarom...

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WEB DEVELOPERI make websites !!!

No computers, cellphones or other grandma related stuff.

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THEORY

“A URI scheme is the top level of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) naming structure. All URIs and absolute URI references are formed with a scheme name, followed by a colon character (":")....”

© Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme/

BLAH BLAH BLAH!...Wikipedia is your friend for nerdy info.

EXAMPLES

•http://www.domain.com/product/16%20/928/de/23

•http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=3737

•http://www.domain.com/products/1/product/12/

•http://www.domain.com/p.php?filter=37348&a=D

•http://www.domain.com/product/16%20/928/de/23

•http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=3737

•http://www.domain.com/products/1/product/12/

•http://www.domain.com/p.php?filter=37348&a=D

•http://www.domain.com/products/page/12/

•http://www.domain.com/products/filter/name

•http://www.domain.com/products/order/desc/

•http://www.domain.com/products/page/12/

•http://www.domain.com/products/filter/name

•http://www.domain.com/products/order/desc/

THE GOOD ONE....

http://www.domain.com/products/

http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/

http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/

Stripped product title or Quicklink

•No spaces: lorem%20ipsum → lorem-ipsum

•No special chars: éàöçî:+%$”&

Now I change the product title...

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404Page not found!

http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/123/

Product ID

http://www.domain.com/products/newlaptopname/123/

http://www.domain.com/products/laptopname/123/

Redirect to new quicklink, based on your product ID

• http://www.domain.com/products/laptop/photos/

• http://www.domain.com/products/laptop/123/photos/

•http://www.domain.com/category/laptops/

•http://www.domain.com/page/disclaimer/

•http://www.domain.com/products?filter=name

•http://www.domain.com/products?order=desc

•http://www.domain.com/products?page=13

SHORTER = BETTER

•http://www.domain.com/laptop-product/123

•http://www.domain.com/category-name/

•http://www.domain.com/disclaimer/

EXAMPLES [AGAIN]

WHY?!

•SEO

•READABLE LINKS

•SHORT LINKS FOR COPY/PAST

•SEO

•READABLE LINKS

•SHORT LINKS FOR COPY/PAST

•WHY NOT?!

JUST A REMINDERThis is my personal view of good urls.

I’m not creating a world standard.

SHOOT !!!Questions?

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