Jeffro Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 It's easy enough to remove my $ signs, but for the site I'm building, there are ads that all have prices built into the title. Is it bad to leave the $ sign on the url? I actually prefer the look but if it's going to hurt me from an SEO perspective, I'll remove. To me.. new-wood-stove-$125.html looks better than new-wood-stove-125.html but... I'm not asking about preference.. just if you guys think it would hurt in any way? Thoughts? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/245437-question-on-dollar-signs-in-urls-okay-from-seo-perspective/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs.punk Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Not sure about SEO but heres a concern, what if the user would like to change the price in his ad, would you keep the original price in the ad? Why are you adding the price to the url anyway? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/245437-question-on-dollar-signs-in-urls-okay-from-seo-perspective/#findComment-1260657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehippy Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 $ is a reserved character in the URI specification, technically as long as its not being used as such there is no problem in using it in a URI. $ was/is a delimiter in the gopher/wais schema. As for being SEO friendly though, its not really, the general thought behind URL encoders is if its not being used as it should then it gets escaped and turned into '%24'. Site indexing also looks for simple patterns in URLs if you have some URLs with dollar signs and others without, you'll mess the the predictive algorithms. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/245437-question-on-dollar-signs-in-urls-okay-from-seo-perspective/#findComment-1260881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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