Multiple Character Cases in URLs

I’ve often seen on various websites where capital letters are used in URLs for pages. For example, site.com/Website.html rather than site.com/website.html.

Using this can generate quite a few problems actually, more than you’d think for just a one letter difference.

For example, people just won’t remember pages with capital letters in. If you ask numerous people, they find it a lot easier when its all just lower case, and basically everyone remembers it as lower case, so you could actually lose traffic on those pages just because people can’t remember it.

Another problem that could be seen is related to Search Engines. Search Engines such as Google may see your website as duplicate content if you have two pages with the same name but one with a capital letter instead. This might not happen, but its a risk that there is no point in taking.

In conclusion, if you are one of the few people who use upper case characters in URLs, my advice to you is to change it immediately. It has no positives of using, and will cause you more problems than it is worth.

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