Google has up to date its URL construction tips to specify what characters Google Search helps in URLs.
The introduction paragraph now leads off by saying, “Google helps URLs as outlined by RFC 3986. Characters outlined by the usual as reserved have to be p.c encoded. Unreserved ASCII characters could also be left within the non-encoded type. Moreover, characters within the non-ASCII vary needs to be UTF-8 encoded.”
Beforehand Google wrote, “A web site’s URL construction needs to be so simple as potential. Take into account organizing your content material in order that URLs are constructed logically and in a way that’s most intelligible to people.”
Different modifications within the doc embody these two additions to the “Resolve this drawback” part. Here’s what was added:
- Create a easy URL construction. Take into account organizing your content material in order that URLs are constructed logically and in a way that’s most intelligible to people.
- If higher and decrease case textual content in a URL is handled the identical by the net server, convert all textual content to the identical case so it’s simpler for Google to find out that URLs reference the identical web page.
These are the massive modifications I noticed with this doc replace.
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