Re: [tlug] (OT) SEO - human readable url

[Henri Servomaa <r_muffin@example.com>]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Edward Middleton wrote
> I don't think you are going to get a definitive answer on this from
> anyone, except possibly someone doing research at Google,  or are you
> just after subjective assessments?  Looking at the PageRank wikipedia

True, only the search engine people have definitive answers, and even  
then, the final rank is the result of a mixture of items.

Maybe I'm more after people's experiences in this.
Things like "Oh, we changed to readable/restful urls and now we come  
on top of every search!!" ... not... ;-)

> page[1],  it looks like actual search results use a SERP rank which  
> is a
> combination of PageRank and browsing habits + alpha ;)
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

Yay, Wikipedia to the rescue! Quite a good read, actually.

Cheers,
Henri