: URL length has little impact on SEO. Google does not appear to have direct signals in their algorithm to prefer shorter URLs. There are two possible SEO considerations with long URLs:

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URL length has little impact on SEO. Google does not appear to have direct signals in their algorithm to prefer shorter URLs.

There are two possible SEO considerations with long URLs:


Long URLs often get truncated when posted into forums and emails.
Long URLs cause pages to be larger and take longer to download. Especially when there are hundreds of links in a page to long URLs.


When users copy and paste URLs from the browser bar, they will usually get the longer encoded URL. This can cause your URL to be truncated more readily than a URL that uses ASCII characters.

When using links in your pages, you can choose to link to the encoded version, or the un-encoded version. So there you could choose the shorter version.

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