[hibernate-dev] Why do we have the date in the URL of blog posts?

Davide D'Alto daltodavide at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 09:14:22 EDT 2018


> I personally don't see the problem with dates in URLs. I don't see any
> problem with not having them, either. But I do see a problem with changing
> the URL scheme: potential dead links, SEO nightmare... We would need a damn
> good reason to do it, and I'm not sure those you mentioned are enough...

+1

> In our case, the data works against us as people might think an article is
> outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that
> a 3 year-old article might not be relevant anymore.

Even if you remove it from the URL, you still have the published date
on every article. The user can still see when the article has been
written.
This makes sense because we are talking about blog posts.

And this argument can also be used in favor of dates:
without the date, you might give the impression that the article is
always up-to-date and I don't think that's realistic.

I'm not against changing it, but, unless we have some real reasons
related to SEO or similar,
I wouldn't worry too much. Most users are probably more interested to
know when the article has been updated anyway (and not when has been
published).

Davide

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are
> highly associated to a given date.
>
> A lot of our posts are. Release announcements and weekly newsletters in
> particular.
>
> I personally don't see the problem with dates in URLs. I don't see any
> problem with not having them, either. But I do see a problem with changing
> the URL scheme: potential dead links, SEO nightmare... We would need a damn
> good reason to do it, and I'm not sure those you mentioned are enough...
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 12:29 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are
>> highly associated to a given date.
>>
>> In our case, the data works against us as people might think an article is
>> outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that
>> a 3 year-old article might not be relevant anymore.
>>
>> It's better if we use simple slug names that capture the article focus
>> keywords and remove the date altogether.
>>
>> Vlad
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > While talking to a few bloggers from the Java ecosphere at JavaLand last
>> > week, the question came up why we have the date in the URL of blog posts.
>> >
>> > Arguably, it doesn't add value there (we show the date on the actual
>> posts
>> > themselves), and makes the URLs slightly worse to read. In particular, we
>> > don't allow for browsing posts by year or month (e.g.
>> > http://in.relation.to/2018/), so it's even a bit misleading. Omitting
>> the
>> > date would also make the original idea of the URL fly again ("in relation
>> > to xyz").
>> >
>> > Anyone with thoughts whether we should change the scheme (keeping
>> existing
>> > ones of course)?
>> >
>> > That all said, I've no idea whether the date in there is good to have or
>> > not in terms of SEO. I suppose it doesn't matter.
>> >
>> > --Gunnar
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