{"id":98,"date":"2011-04-13T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-04-13T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:10:35","slug":"quick-tip-make-your-urls-user-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/2011\/04\/13\/quick-tip-make-your-urls-user-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tip: Make your URLs user-friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you tried to remember the URL of a particular website, but the address had resulted in a jumbled mix of letters, numbers, forward slashes, back slashes, question marks, ampersands, percent signs, dots, dashes, and underscores? Happens a lot, I know, especially with dynamically-generated web documents. These unattractive URLs are not only hard for you to read and remember, but search engines have the same problem with ranking them in a usable and reliable format. Several case studies, including this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.searchenginewatch.com\/070323-083029\" target=\"_blank\">Search Engine Watch<\/a>, have shown that when a website updates their dynamic URLs to a static form, their search engine ranking improves significantly.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/webmaster\/quick-tip-make-your-urls-user-friendly\/277?tag=nl.e101\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you tried to remember the URL of a particular website, but the address had resulted in a jumbled mix of letters, numbers, forward slashes, back slashes,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}