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Liquid url_encode: How to Convert URL into Safe Characters in Shopify

Sam Nguyen
Sam Updated: April 22, 2024

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SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a marketing tactic which helps eCommerce site be found in a search engine such as Google. One of the best ways to maximize SEO is Friendly URL. This is the easy-to-read web address including key content to describe the content. Today Friendly URL plays an important role in the number of traffic and the number of customers coming to the website as well as the number of customers approaching the Shopify stores.

One of the key factors to make a Friendly URL is that online merchants should use the safe characters such as removing from title these kinds of characters ? or #. We try to avoid unsafe characters which are commonly used in different systems; therefore, its results will be an undesired outcome and break the URL. While the other ones can make some problems when using the links in websites, the safe characters allows the developers to have a safe and consistent protocol.

Especially, in a technological age, the information is a currency. The more your store information that the online shoppers approach, the more revenue that you make. Therefore, increasing website traffic will be the best way to boost sales for any Shopify stores. And the safe characters will help the store owners set a rule between the number of characters and the standard of these numbers and letters in URLs. or examples, the letters in the alphabet from a-z, these capital letters and the numbers from 0 to 9 or the underscore, minus. This type of characters is usually used for the parameters.

This guiding article Liquid url_encode: How to Convert URL into Safe Characters in Shopify includes simple steps for even the beginners in Shopify enable converting into safe characters in the URLs. We hope that the Shopify sellers can maximize the SEO and approach to the store’s customers.

Liquid url_encode: How to Convert URL into Safe Characters in Shopify

Step 1: Input

Input

{{ "[email protected]" | url_encode }}

Step 2: Output

Output


Another example for change the unsafe characters to the safe character in URLs 

**Input**

Tetsuro+Takara ```

Output

Tetsuro+Takara

Conclusion

The traffic to an eCommerce site reflect the numbers of visitors coming to their stores. Therefore, it is necessary for the Shopify store to encourage consumers to find the website by SEO. The article Liquid url_encode: How to Convert URL into Safe Characters in Shopify will help you to transfer all the unsafe characters in URLs into the safe ones so the SEO will boost the website rankings as well as the sales. In addition, to have more knowledge about Liquid in Shopify, the online merchants can read these following blogs such as:


Sam Nguyen is the CEO and founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore. He is an expert on the Shopify e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Sam loves talking about e-commerce and he aims to help over a million online businesses grow and thrive.

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