: Can people's names be added to a URL slug On webpages generated from user generated content, I create slugs for the URLs based on the title (just like stackoverflow does): http://www.example.com/photo/day_at_park

@Shanna517

Posted in: #Seo #UrlRewriting #UrlSlug #UserGeneratedContent

On webpages generated from user generated content, I create slugs for the URLs based on the title (just like stackoverflow does):
www.example.com/photo/day_at_park
If there's more than one slug "day_at_park", I'll append a count:
www.example.com/photo/day_at_park,2
Does it make sense to include, in this example, names of people involved in the content. So if it was a photo of Susan and Bob, the URL might be:
www.example.com/photo/day_at_park,susan_surandan,bob_smith
One benefit is far fewer chances of needing to append a count like the second example above. The URLs also are more descriptive about the core parts of the content.

On the downside, the URLs are clearly longer. And I have to introduce more ugly commas (though better than - or _). If, in the above example, there are many people in a photo... I would have to cut down the slug size by removing people... that seems inappropriate, basically attributing more SEO importance to arbitrary people.

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