A client of mine has a product ending with a plus-sign (e.g. Google+) and would like the webpage of this product to have an URL that is human-readable (i.e. an URL that doesn't contain %2B).Since our projects use the following .htaccess RewriteRule RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 it is possible to use an urlencoded space in an URL like that.However, while the url would read like /google+, the actual meaning of the URL would be /google[space]. (The markup won't let me place a real space there.)Now my concern is that this would have disadvantages for SEO. Is this concern valid and/or are there other culprits to this approach?
Are there disadvantages an literal + instead of an encoded + (%2B) in an URL?
seo;search engines;url;url encoding
I found an example of a website which uses this principle. (And I found it through Google.)When I searched for U+0060 the following link http://codepoints.net/U+0060 appeared on the first page (second result for me).I assume there aren't any huge disadvantage at least.