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Subject:  RE: Readable URL's paulwalsh
Author:   PaulWalsh:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   13:35:32 24 September 2006
 
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative has created best practice guidelines to help developers build Web sites that work better on mobile devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.

There are a number of benefits associated with short URIs, e.g. typing a URI on a mobile device can be difficult at the best of times.

However, as Ashley points out, there are some SEO benefits when adding keywords to the string. So, my advice is to keep them short and meaningful.

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#bpgroupnavlinks is the most appropriate link I could find in the best practices document to help explain why short URIs are important.

Everyone assumes visitors will use a desktop browser to access the Web. While this may be true 'today', the 'Web on the move' will soon become the norm. So, as I like to put it, you should aim to "measure twice, cut once and render everywhere".

About the W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium is responsible for creating standards and best practices such as HTML, XML and the Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines. It's also managed by Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the Web.

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Paul
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            • RE: Readable URL's, PaulWalsh, 24 Sep 13:35
              The (http://www.w3.org/mobile) W3C Mobile Web Initiative has created best practice guidelines to help developers build Web sites that work better on mobile devices such as PDAs and ...
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