Re: [hibernate-dev] Why do we have the date in the URL of blog posts?
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outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that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(a)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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