Linking to CMS page ID

[Diana.varbanescu]

Hi all,

Is it that detrimental to SEO if you link to the CMS page ID of a URL rather than the text URL of a page even if when you look at the source code Google sees it as a text URL?

Thanks!

[AlanMosley]

I don't understand if you look at source code and see the text url, then that is how you are linking.

Using text rather then a ID gives you a chance to insert a keyword so text is better then ID.

Linking to an ID then redirecting to a text url as many CMS do, loses link juice on the redirect.