Comments on: URL Capitalization and SEO: How Much Does It Matter?

By: Thogek

Thogek — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:44:45 +0000

A minor clarification...

"...URLs are actually case sensitive (unlike the actual domain name)."

This is a little like saying that "human bodies are actually not invulnerable (unlike the actual head)." (Well, okay, perhaps not as dramatic.)

The domain name is part of the URL. (E.g., "/page1" is not itself a URL; "http://domainname.com/page1" is a URL.) the domain name portion of the URL is not case-sensitive; the path portion of the URL is.

Minor quibble, perhaps, but one that seems to be a source of frequent misunderstandings, specifically concerning case-sensitivity of the a URL string.

Aside from that, nice summary. :-)

By: Thogek

Thogek — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:44:45 +0000

By: Nariman

Nariman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:56:09 +0000

URL casing is largely irrelevant with the introduction of the canonicalization tags. In a Windows/IIS-based system, it’s not a matter of using lower-case or pascal case: whichever you chose, people can still link to your posts using different casing creating different URLs that resolve to the same page. The simplest remedy, Windows or Unix, is to use whatever case you like but employ canonicalization tags correctly.

By: .kaosdistromurah

.kaosdistromurah — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:01:53 +0000

Hey Ann ,I have read your post about URL Capitalization and SEO and i start work for my seo meerut blog URL and now i have done.Thanks again.
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By: Joop Verbaken

Joop Verbaken — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:10:45 +0000

Confusion, confusion!!

Ann told us: “URLs are actually case sensitive (unlike the actual domain name)”

Gail your site moneyminingmoves.com is the perfect example that needs to look better like: MoneyMiningMoves.com with the ms capitalized so they would stand out and very easy to read and remember!

You are ADVICED to keep your folder names and file names lower case.
e.g. http://www.MoneyMiningMoves.com/category/email-marketing/
(in the Web browser it all will be displayed lower case)

I hope this clear it up a bit.

Greeting Joop

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:33:51 +0000

I wonder if it matters if you capitalize your keyword data on a page?

By: neeru

neeru — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:34:00 +0000

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By: Bennie Stark

Bennie Stark — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:29:42 +0000

Another good post Ann.

For me, lower cases are also good than the capital ones.

A good insight and effort of writing about this.You’re such a genius.

Thanks Ann.

By: Rooturaj

Rooturaj — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:44:25 +0000

As a convention it is better to stick to lowercase. people who work with windows platform are more prone to the error. Those working on Linux platform know from birth (exaggerating) the simple difference between an ‘a’ and an ‘A’. But not many people know about the SEO limitations of case changes while linking. Thanks for Sharing

By: hugerewards

hugerewards — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:05:03 +0000

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