Arabic characters in url

Question

I created a website using DNN. The site has Arabic characters in the URL after the domain name. For example: http://www.example.com/اسعارالعملات.aspx .

My questions:

• Is this URL readable by non-Arabic supporting operating systems or browsers or will it give the user an error?
• Is it good for SEO to have an Arabic URL or not?
• Are there any other problems due to the use of Arabic characters?

Answer 1

Edit: directly answer your questions.

[1] Yes, they will work fine due to internationalized resource identifiers.

[2] If you are targeting Arabic search results, then yes, having an Arabic url byte is good for SEO. I’m sure that Google can do translation too.

[3] Copying the paste URL will look ridiculous because of [1]. If you look at the Arabic Wikipedia and try to copy its URL, you will see what I mean.

Additional Information

I know that Google really affects what is in the url, so for example, page-title.aspx will be better than pagetitle. I would suggest that the same rules apply for references to foreign languages ​​- this will help to increase results when people search for terms included in your Arabic word.

Most browsers will handle this, I don’t think you need to install a special language pack. Arab Wikipedia works great, although characters get mapped using internationalized resource identifiers.

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15539/how-do-special-foreign-language-characters-in-an-url-work-and-are-they-fake

It will look good in your url bar, but it will look like http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_ % D8% A7% D9% 84% D8% B1% D8% A6% D9% 8A% D8% B3% D9% 8A% D8% A9 when copying.

I always liked how backspace and delete work the other way around with Arabic text.

Answer 2

I think the best way is to make the link in numerical format, since the url in Arabic does not look normal in different search engines (e.g. bing)

makes the url readable by google not big (although it can be considered good seo practice), but there are many other good ways to help with this, like the page title and keywords on the page, etc.