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

[Davide D'Alto]

By the way, if some articles are more technical and we put some effort
 in keeping them up-to-date,
we could put them in a separate section and just post in the blog
about their existence and updates.

Davide

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Davide D'Alto <daltodavide at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that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 outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that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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