What makes a “friendly URL”?

Question

I\'ve read a great deal of discussion recently (both on this site and elsewhere) about \"friendly URLs\" but I\'m not sure what exactly makes a URL \"friendly\" and why we r

Answer 1

My thoughts on your three bullets:

• I'd say that's not an optimal URL. I have no idea why one would show both the post identifier and title. I don't ever include post IDs in my URLs at all, only titles and (sometimes) dates
• For users, shorter is better.
• Search engines look at the url. Whether it makes sense or not, they do. Having keywords in the URL will offer some SEO benefit.