Can you suggest good ways of generating URLS for viewing tagged content

Question

For example, here on stack overflow the URL http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript+php will give you all questions tagged with javascript and php.

The system I have allows tags with spaces in them, so the approach used here would not be a good fit for me.

What character would you use to separate the tags, so the URLs are still human readable, google readable and web browser compatible.

My gut feeling was to use commas. eg http://example.com/tagged/first+tag,second+tag

Any feedback or suggestions would be welcome.

Answer 1

What about dashes for spaces? See the link for your question and you got it.

Answer 2

Why not stick to using + as the tag separator and use something like an underscore '_' or just a %s for the spaces in the tag names?

Answer 3

Keep in mind: putting "-" instead of "_" is better in the eye of a search engine spider, and it is SEO rule

Answer 4

If your language has a URLEncode function then use that to modify your tags.

Answer 5

How about + for spaces and - for tag spaces, then (just compiling best of both answers)?

I also have another tip, a little on the side, in case you haven`t thought of it. You can include non-answered questions with specific tags by adding unanswered/ before tagged.

See the related question How to display questions with tag X that are unanswered