: Best SEO-friendly practice of adding filters to URLs I like to know the best approach of adding filters to a URL. Ex: 1 http://example.com/items-recent-1.html http://example.com/items-price-1.html

@LarsenBagley505

Which one you use doesn't make a huge difference to SEO at all. Semantically speaking as the content remains much the same and the order of the records shown is all that changes then it would be better to put the sort in as a parameter but whether you do it as a rewritten URL path instead won't affect SEO. The thing to remember is that example.com/items-recent-1.html and example.com/items-price-1.html to Google will show up as two completely different pages and so will be ranked differently and separately but... example.com/items-1.html http://example.com/items-1.html?sortby= recent example.com/items-1.html?sortby= price

will all show to Google as the same page and so will be grouped together and Google will decide which one is the most appropriate to return to the end user based on the query.

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