Tag Archives: url seo

Petfinder.com - Portfolio Site

I’ve been working on Petfinder.com for about 3 years now. I’ve done things like improve traffic from search engines by 900%, overhaul the UI of the pet search function, and add the pet adoption happy tails site section. I’ve also implemented over a dozen sponsored sweepstakes and contests in the system (both front and back end). Read more about this project…

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URL SEO: Follow these simple rules

Yes, your URL is important (if you don’t know what that is, a URL is a web page’s address). Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. If you follow these simple rules, your URLs will really help you out.

  • Rule #1: Take a moment to think about the words in your URL
  • Rule #2: Separate words with hyphens
  • Rule #3: Use all lowercase, always
  • Rule #4: If you can get away with it, don’t use a file extension
  • Rule #5: Don’t use too many subdirectories

More about URL SEO.

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