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Can an "SEO Friendly" url contain a unique ID?

I'd like to start using "SEO Friendly Urls" but the notion of generating and looking up large, unique text "ids" seems to be a significant performance challenge relative to simply looking up by an integer. Now, I know this isn't as "human friendly", but if I switched from:

http://example.com/products/details?id=1000

To:

http://example.com/products/spacelysprokets/sproket/id

I could still use the ID alone to quickly lookup the details, but the URL itself contains keywords that will display in that detail. Is that friendly enough for Google? I hope so as it seems a much easier process than generating something at the end that is both unique and meaningful.

Thanks!

Solution

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/820493/can-an-seo-friendly-url-contain-a-unique-id

    I'd say you're fine.