chilihead Posted February 15, 2016 Posted February 15, 2016 The (/) symbol is a common word separator, as in buy/sell/trade, theme/skin, etc. But the search engine friendly URLs created for content do not convert this to a hyphen so they become buyselltrade themeskin when they (imo) should be buy-sell-trade, theme-skin. I would also put a few more on the list like . and + and &. Examples, IPS tips...tools, it now becomes: ips-tipstools. Lots of people use (...) and touch words. Also one+one, or Mike&Ike. Those would run together. You may also want to consider , ? ! " ' which usually are not in between words and touching but sometimes are due to title length limitations, and the more SEO friendly the better! Understandably you drop some symbols but I would say the / and . are important to convert. I had reported it because the URL for my topic: Commerce flaws/wish list became: https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/422814-commerce-flawswish-list/#comment-2595457 flawswish and I thought it was a bug since this is a common word separator. Much better for SEO if flaws-wish Thanks! This was the bug report.
chilihead Posted April 16, 2016 Author Posted April 16, 2016 Would still like to see this, at least some of these, especially /.
Colonel_mortis Posted April 16, 2016 Posted April 16, 2016 Yeah, I agree. Currently, a selection of characters are intentionally stripped (on line 261 of \IPS\Http\Url), but it would make far more sense to just replace them to -. It would be a single character change to the code, but it would make URLs more friendly.
Surendra.S Posted April 18, 2016 Posted April 18, 2016 On 16/04/2016 at 11:19 PM, chilihead said: Would still like to see this, at least some of these, especially /. I agree. it must be done.
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