SEO: Numerical ID in URLs

[alledia]

Short description

URL should be optionnaly prefixed with a numerical id, consisting of a creation date number, plus a unique id. Example : mysite.com/20080309/212/page-title.html. This URL should not vary when the page content is updated, to keep the url consistent.

Insertion of this numerical id should be done on a category or section basis.

Expected benefits/ Problem solved

This is a requirement for insertion in Google News-like services.

[newart]

I'm very sorry to totally disagree with you. I beg your pardon but I think that Joomla isn't a news system but a content one and so joomla cannot follow a googlenews feature. I think a good 3pd can simply add this type of URL by a special component / plugin. Sorry again!

[AmyStephen]

I would love to see SEF URL plugins available.

IMO, WordPress dominates in this area and I encourage looking at what they did.

Permalinks are only going to become more important as we head into the semantic web. I do look at a small set of basic URLs in core as a very positive thing. Doing so, will also provide a nice pattern for others to follow because we are not all ever going to see URLs the same way. Lots of diversity in this.

It would be a welcome improvement, IMO, to add this to 1.6 core. Very welcome, in fact.

Thanks Steve!
Amy

[shumisha]

Hi Amy and newart,

This feature is already available through sh404SEF, both for J 1.0.x and J! 1.5. Having this possiblity in the core would not make Joomla a "news system" (though you'd have to define that!). However, not having this (as a switchable option of course) prevent Joomla powererd latest news items to be published by news systems such as Google news. And I don't see why we should not.

Regards

[newart]

as a possibility offered by joomla... yes, that's right but I disagree in case of a speficic way for "designing" our joomla URLs. (so you can use plug-ins or dedicated components, IMO) A joomla site can be a news site, sometimes... but above all a joomla site can be whatever joomla site you want to manage.

[shumisha]

Hi

It has never been mentioned this would be put in ALL URL. Actually, it was specifically mentioned it can only be done if either section or at least category-related. Which means it can be turned on/off at will.

Regards

[dannygsam]

is it possible to move the unique id to the right corner of the URL? it now comes after the domain name.

[soulmkt]

very simple the solution
1- it creates a menu with all the archives and adds urls without ids
2- later it creates mine for the sections and the categories as urls already had been created does not add id it sees
http://www.carrosemotos0km.com.br/novo-gol