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dsp1234 on April 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: SEO impact of HN's URL “itemid” vs. an act...

What is the reasoning behind only an itemid in the URL for HN?

It's easy to code

Is there an SEO impact?

Probably, but as SEO is search engine optimization, if a site doesn't care about search engines, then it also probably doesn't care about optimization of those searches.

awinder on April 11, 2016 [–]

To be fair putting a title and an item id is nearly as easy to code, just the "overhead" of a rewrite rule.

bdcravens on April 11, 2016 | [–]

It's not exactly a huge amount of work, but validating and sluggifying text is also part of it.

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