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Flags common stop words in URL slugs
Rule IDurl/stop-words
CategoryURL Structure
ScopePer-page
Severityinfo
Weight2/10

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Solution

Stop words (a, an, the, of, etc.) add length without SEO value. While not harmful, removing them makes URLs shorter and more focused. ‘best-running-shoes’ is better than ‘the-best-running-shoes-for-you’. However, keep stop words if removing them makes the URL confusing or grammatically awkward.

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Enable / Disable

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Disable this rule

squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["url/stop-words"]

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Disable all URL Structure rules

squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["url/*"]

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Enable only this rule

squirrel.toml
[rules]
enable = ["url/stop-words"]
disable = ["*"]