I need your advice for PrettyUrls Mod

[moner]

Hi

I need your advice for PrettyUrls Mod ,important for my board on google or not important or normal or bad ?

Because this mod change urls on google and maybe this mod not working with new SMF ,i will have big problem on google

[Kindred]

A far a google is concerned, prettyURLs are useless.

Use them if you want them... but don't use them with any assumption that google lieks them more than the regular urls.

[firemun]

I wouldn't write off friendly/pretty URLs that quickly. While they are not significant to Google and other search engines in terms of SEO, they can be somewhat useful even if just in a small amount.

Keywords in URLs for example can help forums and websites target such keyword. This is why you see so many of them on Google, formatted in a way where keywords are being shown in the result. Also, it is good for good old fashion human eyes. If I see a 'raw url' of a forum and it has a keyword in it describing a subject I am looking for, it will catch my attention more than a URL that is a bunch of numbers and letters not making any point to me.

MOZ still explains that friendly URLs help and they're fairly expert at SEO but I do somewhat agree with Kindred, in a way... URLs are not going to be a significant method of ranking higher on search engines. They will just look better more than anything else.

[Kindred]

No, the reason that you see them on Google is because people have been told (incorrectly) that it makes a difference...   Or, perhaps, they just want memorable URLs that make sense to humans.

However, specially on a forum, where a n admin has no real say over the thread titles, the prettyurls is basically pointless, as far as seo is concerned.

[firemun]

Or, perhaps, they just want memorable URLs that make sense to humans.

That is more how I feel about what friendly URLs are for search engines and people. So in a way, they help with search, mainly for humans rather than the technical side of optimization. I get what you're saying Kindred and I agree with you