Would this URL be keyword spamming?

Stoned Phillips · 07-30-2004, 06:54 PM

Would the URL http://www.online-dvd-club.com/buy-d...locale-us.html be considered keyword spamming?

awall19 · 07-30-2004, 07:43 PM

it is a bit excessive in my opinion

thebassman · 07-30-2004, 08:48 PM

It's long and excessive... but I don't think it would be considered keyword spamming.

I, Brian · 07-31-2004, 12:26 AM

If you break keyword files into folders, it can often look a lot less contrived - for example:

http://www.online-dvd-club.com/buy-d...431/locale/us/

That looks much more natural in my opinion.

JayM · 07-31-2004, 06:14 AM

Brians idea of splitting into folders is a very good one, however I would tend to tone it down a little.

pcarlow · 08-02-2004, 06:45 AM

Keyword spamming, no. Unnatural looking, yes. I would go with this:
[code:1:60a91eed41]http://www.online-dvd-club.com/buy-dvd-online/mode-dvd-node/163431-locale-us.html[/code:1:60a91eed41]

or something similar. I'm thinking you could probably get rid of mode-dvd-node altogether using Mod Rewrite if necessary.

John Scott · 08-02-2004, 12:34 PM

Not keyword spamming, just very long.

BMS · 08-02-2004, 02:12 PM

I also agree, splitting it up into folders would look a lot better.

MacroChap · 08-03-2004, 03:42 AM

Not very punchy for your traffic to remember either!

samer · 08-03-2004, 06:00 AM

try to apply a mod_rewrite on it .. with the .htaccess file.

samer · 08-03-2004, 06:02 AM

to make a url similiar to brian's

awall19 · 08-03-2004, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MacroChap

Not very punchy for your traffic to remember either!

that is another effect many people forget too.

you will want some humans to actually click on the listing and people are going to be less inclined to do that if it is really long and "spammy" looking.

I, Brian · 08-03-2004, 08:13 AM

That's a very good point, Aaron - it's easy to get so focussed on spiders and forget its the human traffic you are ultimately trying to cater for via SEO.

I used to give all my folder files overlong keyworded URLs. With a certain folder depth it became a little ridiculous for human users.

I now have a policy of only using keywords for pivotal folders, and not for individual files themselves.

I may lose out slightly for that in Yahoo, but I figure I gain by having site page URLs look cleaner, more professional, and less contrived and overlong.

In the example URL - instead of using folders to make it look as follows:

http://www.online-dvd-club.com/buy-d...431/locale/us/

I would actually consider cutting tight down to barest essentials, such as:

http://www.online-dvd-club.com/us/

That covers the core keywords, gives more weight to those keywords in the URL for search engines, and looks much more friendly to human users.

brickred · 08-04-2004, 02:38 AM

yup it seem to be long domain