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title: Why URL Optimization Is Important
description: Using good URL naming conventions is one of the most important things you can do to optimize your website and SEO.
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# [Why URL Optimization Is Important](https://www.inboxcommunications.com/blog/why-url-optimization-is-important)

 Written by [Inbox](https://www.inboxcommunications.com/blog/author/inbox) | Oct 28, 2014

## Best Practices For URL Naming

 

 

Every page on your website should have a unique, properly labeled, clean URL slug. Having clean URLs means that your content can easily indexed and found by your [buyer personas](https://www.inboxcommunications.com/blog/the-value-of-knowing-your-buyer-personas?hsLang=en-us). Why should you care about URLs? URL naming conventions and management are essentail for:

  

1. Your Website Visitors
2. SEO (search engine optimization)
3. Analytics

First off, what is a URL? URLs, or uniform resource locators, are the identities of the pages on your website. Each page is reached through a URL, or in some cases, through multiple URLs. 

 

## Best Practices

 

URLs need to tell your website visitors what your page is about. This is how you show users what content they can expect from a page. Here are some URL naming best practice examples:

 

- www.yourdomain.com/event-name/
- www.yourdomain.com/event-category/
- www.yourdomain.com/event-category/event-name/

 

Following URL naming convention best practices is not difficult. It is also one of the most important things you can do to optimize your website and SEO for your visitors.

 

 

 

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