Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Google's John Mueller: very long URLs can hurt rankings.

In a Google Groups discussion, Google's John Mueller mentioned on a specific URL as being a bit too long for comfort.

The URL in question is :

http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/small-kitchen-appliances-toaster-kettle-coffee-machine-blender-juicer-channel7-sunrise-australia-42.html

John said "Now I'm all for having descriptive URLs, but .... this seems to be taking it a bit too far and I have a bit of trouble identifying anything that matches in the content of your page"

It seems he is pointing out the URL as being something that may raise a red flag in Google.

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