Link format requirements

Link of the form https://example.com/qa/index.php/56565/./zaglavnye-bukvy-v-url is correct, but it is difficult to read and understand what it means. I don’t want to forward such a link in the messenger. Having received such a link in the message, the user is unlikely to read it because of the bulkiness. Therefore, it will not read the name of the site, which will reduce its recognition.

A link with a Cyrillic link is converted to a long and poorly remembered string.

It is also inconvenient to store such links in notes. They can occupy up to half of the phone screen and it is difficult to understand their purpose from their contents.

To make your links beautiful and easy to read, follow the following guidelines:

Uppercase characters are missing. Different operating systems handle the case of file names differently. To avoid confusion, do not use uppercase.
Double characters are missing: slash //, dash –, dots.., underscore __.
There is no backslash .
Non-ANCII characters: Cyrillic, emoji and other characters. They will be replaced with a poorly readable string of the form %D0%B0%D0%.
A link of the form /path/index.php/56565/path/ containing an index file in the middle.
There are no commands to change directories /./ and /../.
There is no equal symbol in the path.

Links with the following errors will be ignored by search engines:

The address is not localhost.
The address is not IPv4 or IPv6.
There is no port.
There is no login and password.
There are no space characters, line breaks, tabs and carriage translation.

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Link format requirements

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