Hi all, I have a few questions regarding Discourse URLs. QUESTION 1: Why are random letters and numbers added within URLs? How can we create URLs without these additional subfolders? From my SEO understanding, extra URL subfolders push the content further away from the root domain, which dilutes…

Answer1: The Numbers are the topic id and then followed by the post id Answer2 : activating the /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=fixed_category_positions will allow you to re-arrange categories

Thank you. I’ve managed to arrange the categories within the forum, however then once a topic is created within a category, the URL structure does not reflect the categorisation (it doesn’t sit within the same URL folder structure). Do you know a way to ensure it sits within this?

Categories as displayed as https://meta.discourse.org/c/support/6 where support has an id of 6 and can also be referenced as https://meta.discourse.org/c/6 topics are displayed as https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimising-discourse-urls/204974/ where the topic id is 204974 and can also be reference…

[图片] Katherine: the URL structure does not reflect the categorisation (it doesn’t sit within the same URL folder structure). Do you know a way to ensure it sits within this? That is not possible at the moment. All we do is set the category as breadcrumbs in the page metadata: [image]

And there is another point: structure of URL has nothing to do with SEO. Only the content in that URL matters. SEO includes a lot of pure folklore that supports only selling pitches of SEO consults :wink:

[图片] Katherine: From my SEO understanding, extra URL subfolders push the content further away from the root domain, which dilutes the authority in Google’s eyes. I don’t think that matters any more. It would be far more damaging to traffic if the URL structure were changed at this point. […

优化 Discourse URL

支持

Jagster (Jakke Flemming) 2021 年10 月 1 日 16:32 6

还有另一个要点：URL 的结构与 SEO 无关，只有该 URL 中的内容才重要。SEO 包含大量纯粹的风俗观念，这些观念仅用于支持 SEO 顾问的销售说辞

话题		回复	浏览量
Topic URL to include its Category Support	9	1063	2025 年3 月 7 日
Changing link letter to word e.g:- /t/ to /name of the category & modify or remove /c/ Support	3	1410	2015 年11 月 23 日
Category name in URL Feature	3	1297	2015 年5 月 22 日
URL Changes for Topic Pages Support seo	1	620	2020 年3 月 23 日
Is it possible to change the url structure? Support	1	851	2019 年10 月 5 日

优化 Discourse URL

相关话题