Which internet address is seo friendly ?

[sparhawk]

Hello,

 

I ask you for advice which of the internet addresses is SEO friendly ?

 

with endings .html

1. http://demo.com/casual-dresses/printed-dress-3.html

 

or without endings .html

2. http://demo.com/casual-dresses/printed-dress-3

 

It is better to give ID at the end of the product name ?

 

Thank you for your answers

Edited June 7, 2015 by sparhawk (see edit history)

[selectshop.at]

For human it is better to have it on the end. For SERPS it does not make any difference

[sparhawk]

Thank you for answer.

 

And internet address ending in .html (printed-dress-3.html) or without ending .html (printed-dress-3) also does not effect to SEO ?

[johnwolf]

Google likes file identifiers in the urls. like .html. pdf. etc which tell the Google that which type of this document is...

Another point is that product ids make the indexing of page difficult. It is better to remove ids i.e. 3 from the urls. Recommending you to read this article for better understanding of url structure in PrestaShop. http://www.fmemodules.com/en/blog/6-why-bother-about-clean-urls--do-they-really-matter---best-practices

[selectshop.at]

As johnwolf said, for Google it is important to have an identifier of the document.

To remove the ID's from the product, I'm not of the same opinion.

 

a) for Prestashop it is important to have this identifier, I suggest you if you are planning to upgrade your software later or from time to time to don't follow or use any of modules for to remove the id's - I'm having since 3 years only bad experience with this (some pages of my customers were totally destroyed on database basis), BTW not implemented by me, I've only reconstructed in several day work their shops !!! For me a good money, for the shop owner extra cost and a bad experience

 

and

 

b ) it does not make any impact on your ranking if you have only ONE ID in your URL. Another thing is if you have an encrypted URL with several numbers on it which for ex. aren't supplier ID's, UPC or EAN. Google uses on his search match also UPC and EAN, which therefore are not less important. BTW the link named is not working. Official Webmaster support you can get on Google's webmaster forum, or webmaster Google pages:

 

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters

 

https://support.google.com/webmasters/?hl=en#topic=3309469

 

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76329?hl=en - take a look specially here. There is no reference for ID's (only cookie session ID's which is not the same as a product ID). Prestashop's URL structure is quite well-formed for the best SEO, you don't need to change nothing on it !!!

[johnwolf]

I agree that one product id is well in the sense that it is not causing any issue. However, I hate session ids like given in the below urls as a sample. 

myserver/folder/file.php?pageid=230

www.thecooltool.com/produktgruppe.php?language=e&status=20&sh_id=19&ptitel=Playmat

[selectshop.at]

I agree that one product id is well in the sense that it is not causing any issue. However, I hate session ids like given in the below urls as a sample. 

myserver/folder/file.php?pageid=230

www.thecooltool.com/produktgruppe.php?language=e&status=20&sh_id=19&ptitel=Playmat

The mentioned are cookies ID which of course have an impact on the SEO. The ID's Prestashop are using are not cookie sessions ID's and therefore they have no impact on SEO, not at the end, not at mid, not at beginning of URL. These ID's are simply a database mapping, without any punishment to the SERP's.

Edited June 10, 2015 by selectshop.at (see edit history)

[Prestalia]

These ID's are simply a database mapping, without any punishment to the SERP's.

 

 

Totally agree. Many customers ask to us to remove ids from URLs but the important thing is that Prestashop needs only ID to get the products or category, so if you improve your urls with keywords, you will not must do 301 redirects in htaccess to mantain your ranking, because Prestashop needs only ID to get the correct URI, example:

 

http://shop.prestalia.it/en/ebay-and-marketplace/80-ebay-revolution-module-prestashop-16.html

http://shop.prestalia.it/en/ebay-and-marketplace/80-.html

http://shop.prestalia.it/en/ebay-and-marketplace/80-ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVZ.html

 

they are all recognized from PS

 

Christopher - Prestalia

Edited June 11, 2015 by Prestalia (see edit history)

[DotMedia]

This module works brilliantly for removing the ID and preatty easy to set up:

http://addons.prestashop.com/en/seo-prestashop-modules/16928-advanced-url.html

[selectshop.at]

This module works brilliantly for removing the ID and preatty easy to set up:

 

http://addons.prestashop.com/en/seo-prestashop-modules/16928-advanced-url.html

 

I have used this extension by FME: http://addons.prestashop.com/en/seo-prestashop-modules/16633-pretty-urls.html and it is working awesome on my store. 

 

here is the link of my store: www.petsworld.nl/presta/kauwmateriaal/buffalo-oren-10-stuks 

Did you both ever used the modules for to remove ID's some years, like 2-3 ? you will notice that after upgrades you made your database is going to be more and more instable. But well, it is everybody own choose. The helper than trying to restore your databases is taking money for this. Again I warn all to don't remove ID's. It is not good for longlasting projects, besides it does not take any effect for SEO.

Edited June 12, 2015 by selectshop.at (see edit history)

[DotMedia]

I've been using 'Advanced URL' for at least 2 years and haven't had any problems whatsoever, in actual fact I got a slight bump up in my rankings after I installed it.

[selectshop.at]

I've been using 'Advanced URL' for at least 2 years and haven't had any problems whatsoever, in actual fact I got a slight bump up in my rankings after I installed it.

 

 

Sorry, but this I cannot believe. The bump must be some other changes you made. ID's (unless they aren't cookie ID's) don't have any impact on the ranking of your site. Read the official Google tutorials I've linked on topic#5. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76329?hl=en

 

Surely Google knows better, I think ? There is no reference on any official tut that the one ID in Prestashop link, and also no tests I've made, proving increase of ranking by removing the ID. I'm with Prestashop since 2009.

Edited June 12, 2015 by selectshop.at (see edit history)

[DotMedia]

Well Advanced URL doesn't only remove the ID, you can also tweak the structure of your url and anyone involved in the SEO industry knows that it's not just one thing that affects your rankings it's everything that affects your rankings and that includes url structure.



I'm not saying that it has a massive effect, all i'm saying is for anyone that owns a shop, they're whole aim is to get the site to the top of the search engines for their chosen keyword probably against some tough competition, so do a search on Google for one of your keywords and see how many out of the top 10 results have a url with an ID in it... I can pretty much guarantee it will be more that don't have an ID than what do... is this just a coincidence.... maybe, all I know is that after over 20 years in the seo industry is that you don't leave anything to chance, replicate what the big boys are doing and you won't go far wrong.