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Best Practices for Clean, SEO-Friendly URL Slugs
How to craft readable permalinks that improve Google click-through rates and search crawling.
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Key Principles of URL Architecture
Keep it concise: Focus on 2 to 5 primary target keywords.
Use hyphens, not underscores or spaces.
Avoid stop words like "and", "the", "of" unless essential for clarity.
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