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New: Longer URLs

Posted by Phil McCluskey on August 3, 2011 at 3:44pm

Hi Creators,

A couple of weeks ago we released the ability for you to customize the urls of most types of content in your network. A few minutes ago we bumped up the length of these urls from a maximum of 30 characters to 65 characters (with the exception of groups, which are limited to 50). This should give you even more SEO control and ensure that important keywords from titles automatically appear in your urls.

Thanks,

Phil

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vincent wilson November 10, 2011 at 10:01am

This is wonderful. Network creators should see more clicks.
Patrick Chappelle August 9, 2011 at 7:08pm
Arianrhod Wolfchild August 6, 2011 at 7:12am

Yay! Good work!
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Bernard Lama August 6, 2011 at 12:26am

+1
Brian Floe August 5, 2011 at 7:48pm

Awesome - I was wondering why there was this [irritating] limit. So glad to see it disappear. THANKS!
Lisa Simpkins August 5, 2011 at 7:34am

Way to go NING..We Love You
Henry Cox August 4, 2011 at 10:24am

good look on this
M August 4, 2011 at 10:06am

Like a boss
Anthony August 4, 2011 at 7:28am

I know this upgrade is positive, can someone expalin on this positive move. How this move will help your network in terms of SEO etc?
- Phil McCluskey > Anthony August 4, 2011 at 10:14am
  
  Hi Anthony,
  
  Here's a url that's been created since the change:
  
  /forum/topics/how-soon-will-we-get-a-copy-event-or-recurring-event-capability
  
  Previously it would have looked like:
  
  /forum/topics/how-soon-will-we-get-a-copy
  
  To the extent that Google looks at keywords in urls in order to determine the subject of a page or the importance of various things within it, then you can see that the new url contains 'recurring-event' and 'copy-event' so it's a little more likely to rate for those types of searches. And of course you can manipulate urls now, so you can fine tune it if you want to something like:
  
  copy-event-or-recurring-event-capability-when
  
  Thanks,
  
  Phil