What Is a URL? The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

You enter URLs every day... but what exactly is a URL and how does it work? 🤯Click the URL below to learn more 😉
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A URL is essentially a unique address that will lead to a specific page on a site when entered into a web browser. It’s what makes it easy to share webpages (or YouTube videos) you find interesting with your friends.

With millions of connected servers on the internet, hundreds of millions of websites, and billions of pages, it’s one of the primary technologies that make the web easy to navigate.

Without it, you would have no way to separate one page from the 64 billion other webpages on the internet.

In this video, we’ll do a deep dive into the URL, explain what it is in-depth, break down the individual building blocks of how it works, cover what a good URL looks like for SEO purposes, and more.

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🕘Timestamps

0:00 Intro
0:56 What Is a URL?
1:30 What is an Example of a URL?
1:50 The Anatomy of a URL
2:52 The Domain Name & DNS
3:23 The Path
4:24 Query Strings and Variables
5:12 UTM Parameters
5:49 Anchors
6:52 WWW or non-WWW
7:44 WordPress Permalinks
8:52 Editing Permalinks When Creating New Posts and Pages
9:31 Redirecting an Old URL
10:28 URL Shorteners: When You Should Use Them

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📚 Resources

🇺🇷🇱 What Is a URL? The Anatomy of a URL, Permalinks, SEO, and More
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➡️ In-Depth HTTP to HTTPS Migration Guide for WordPress
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🤔 What Is DNS? Domain Name System Explained
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🛠 How to Change Your WordPress URL
► https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/word...

📗 The Ultimate Guide to Using WordPress Permalinks
► https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-per...

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