A friendly URL accurately describes the page using keywords that are easy to read for both search engines and users.
This is an example of an SEO friendly URL:
https://www.reliablesoft.net/seo-friendly-blog-posts/
This is an example of a NON-SEO friendly URL:
https://www.example.com/Folder/X1356774/124
That’s the first optimization step you can take to make your URL’s friendly i.e. to use keywords that are relevant to your site’s content, but as we will see below, there is more than that.
Should you use dates as part of your URL? Should you include the category before the post name?
These are just a few questions you will answer below but before that, let’s see why having optimized URLS is important.