(Entry was posted by Nathan Nikolay Gaidy on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 04/30/2020).

Negative effect of URL masking and path forwarding

URL Masking and or forwarding path is of negative effect?

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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Ryan Jones: depends how it`s done and what you`re doing it for
Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Ryan Jones Some said it`s bad and that I should not mask at all

I understand shorter URLs are beneficial but is it worth it?
Richard Hearne: Masking is mostly provided by legacy hosting environments, and if it involves using iframes then I`d avoid it if you care about SEO.