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Went Hot: February 6, 2008 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
A red crab: "Nope. Stealing trailing slashes is a brain dead approach that produces crap and damages search engine rankings."
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Dude, it does look way cooler. Or, more understandable. Believe me, there are still people who read out URLs on the radio like "h t t p colon backslash backlslash domain dot co dot uk dot backslash" and people who still grapple with URLs. In print, or any place I think I'm going to deal with a newbie, I tend to drop the trailing slash to keep it simple. But online, you bet, I'm with you, that slash is there.
For me it looks like the site is down at the moment.
EDIT: Working now.
You're right Danny. I really should add that URLs in print, radio, and offline in general should be truncated in a way that browsers can figure out the location - "domain dot co dot uk" is enough.
Baiduyou, a whole legion of stumblers tickles the database. ;)
Glad to see your excellent articles are getting the traffic they so richly deserve ;)
Thank you, Baiduyou. :)
A great article, Sebastian. Unfortunately like the www. versus non-www debate, it's something where some humans will think it should look good to them and hang the spiders needs.
@Sebastian: Excellent, excellent point. I was crawling around the web recently and noticed a few people actually killing the slash, and including a "." in their directory name....talk about confusion...
Thanks Barry + Shady. :)
It's not only about spider needs, it can result in actual traffic losses.
Thanks Edward, and thanks for the link :)