How to check URL format?

Which URL format to use from these 4?

  • I have a classfieds/ads site (over 10 000 listings) and I need to decide what is the best format to use for the thumbnails url, this next example is for ad id `928`, title `water art` which can have photo1, photo2, etc. What is best for SEO ? /thumbs/water-art_928_2.jpg /thumbs/928/2/water-art.jpg /thumbs/928-2/water-art.jpg /thumbs/928/water-art_2.jpg Now I have `/photo_thumbs/928_2.jpg` but I don't get any search engine traffic yet, I think is safe to change URL format.

  • Answer:

    Go with /thumbs/928/water-art-2.jpg.  Ideally you would leave off the 928 portion like you did in the first example but that could get really hard on your DB queries depending how you structured your  back-end.  Even though Google says there is now no difference between dashes and underscores I'd still advise going with dashes.

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