{"id":96,"date":"2010-09-21T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-09-21T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:38:14","slug":"bad-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/bad-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"

At my old job I would often get marketing brochures come to my desk. One that really stands out for me is from one of the larger telecommunications companies. <\/p>\n

I can’t even remember what service they were advertizing, but the catch phrase was “Got It”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, their URL didn’t quite read the way they’d intended. <\/p>\n

www.companynamehere.com\/GOTit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, they tried. I’ll give them that. <\/p>\n

They uppercased ‘GOT’ in an attempt to eliminate confusion but didn’t work. After all, most would agree, the ‘girls’ deserves a capital ‘T’.<\/p>\n

FYI – advice from a webmaster, dashes don’t hurt URLs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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