Which is Better - Shorter URLs or Long and Descriptive Ones?

Having shorter URLs to your blog posts has its advantages -

• Shorter URLs can be used by the print media like newspapers/magazines to link to the online content
• Readers can quickly share shorter links via email/IM to their friends without worrying about sending incorrect URL due to formatting errors during copy-paste

At the same time, short URLs do not describe the content of the page and hence are not as search engine friendly as longer ones. SEO experts suggest using descriptive URLs. These are useful for search engines but for the readers they may not be easy to use. Long and huge URLs may scare some of your readers.

So how can we provide a page which has the advantage of being SEO friendly at the same time providing ease of use to the readers? Read on» » » »

cforms - A Wonderful Forms Plugin by Delicious:Days

I love to connect with my readers in ways they like. I was looking for a contact form that I could readily add to my site so that people can easily get in touch with me. I was previously using a custom contact form written by myself. However, now as I have moved to WordPress, I wanted something that I could handle from within WordPress. Read on» » » »