How SEO friendly is this URL?

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I have this products catalog site.For the sake of SEO, I would have wanted my 'view details' link to look some thing like this

~/products/26-productname or ~/products/26/productname

On my machine I'm using a url re-writing module and it works well. Unfortunately My host(shared) does not support url re-writing modules or Aspnet 4.0 for now. So I came up with a workaround that attempts to be SEO friendly

Instead of this :

~/Products/details.aspx?id=26

I decided to simply append the product name in the url and i.e

~/Products/details.aspx?product=26-Toshiba Qosmio Notebook

So my question is how SEO friendly is such a URL and is my attempt worth anything at all?

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Either rewrite your app using asp.net MVC or get a new host. - mxmissile
This is not really programming related. - Gumbo
Changing hosts is not possible currently. Thats why I was looking for an alternative using the few options I had. - The_AlienCoder
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6 Answers

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It doesn't really make a difference to search engines if you use just a number or a number and a string, but you should make sure that the parameter is recognized correctly:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-parameter-handling-tool-helps-with.html

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IMO - your URL should read as:

/products/toshiba-qosmio-notebook/

or

/products/26/

and in both cases should point to the same resource. This is more SEO than the link you provided with the query parameters as it points to a resource URI rather than a URL as in your code.

If your host does not support url-rewrite, perhaps it is time to move to a different host who supports this...

HTH

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It is always a good practice to use url which are easily understandable for crawlers. Using certain keywords is also beneficial. http://www.curiologix.com/company-overview.php is an example how your url should be

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It is always advisable to use static url, don't go for lengthy statement in url, try adding keywords in url for website promotion.

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As far you are using Product URL then according to Google URL Should be understand by the Human. You can easily get the idea about it by the help of this Google Guide.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

So instead of Using this URL 

~/Products/details.aspx?product=26-Toshiba Qosmio Notebook

You should try to resolve it with this type of URL you can remove the Product Id and used something like this. 

 ~/Products/details/toshiba-qosmio-notebook.aspx

It would be Good for your website.

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