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    • petemarko
      petemarko last edited by

      I am using seomoz software as a trial, it has crawled my site and a  report is telling me that the URL for my forum is to long:

      <dl>

      <dt>Title</dt>

      <dd>Healthy Living Community</dd>

      <dt>Meta Description</dt>

      <dd>Healthy life discussion forum chatting about all aspects of healthy living including nutrition, fitness, motivation and much more.</dd>

      <dt>Meta Robots</dt>

      <dd>noodp, noydir</dd>

      <dt>Meta Refresh</dt>

      <dd>Not present/empty</dd>

      <dd>

      1 Warning

      Long URL (> 115 characters)

      Found about 17 hours ago

      <dl>

      <dt>Number of characters</dt>

      <dd>135 (over by 21)</dd>

      <dt>Description</dt>

      <dd>A good URL is descriptive and concise. Although not a high priority, we recommend a URL that is shorter than 75 characters.</dd>

      </dl>

      </dd>

      <dd>

      URL: http://www.goodhealthword.com/forum/reprogramming-health/welcome-to-the-forum-for-discussing-the-4-steps-for-reprogramming-ones-health/

      The problem is when I check the page via edit or in the admin section of wordpress, the url is a s follows:

      http://www.goodhealthword.com/forum/

      My question is where is I cannot see where this long url is located, it appears to be a valid page but I cant find it.

      Thanks

      Pete

      </dd>

      </dl>

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      • irvingw
        irvingw last edited by

        I wouldn't concern myself with this error - many of the large media outlets have long URL's and no issue with traffic. I certainly wouldn't change URL's unless I know I am not getting the expected rankings and traffic to the page. If this is your one error on their report - you are in great shape. kudos.

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