A real test - URL with keywords in Google

janhvizdak · 09-27-2007, 03:51 AM

Guys I just wanted everyone to know about my test which I undertook today.

1) I have an old established article without primary keywords which I am focusing on within the URL,
2) Today I added two keywords into the URL and made it a 301 redirect from the old URL to a new URL,
3) The article ranks 12-th for that phrase (2 keywords phrase) in google.com right now.

I await:

1) Re-indexing in 1-2 days,
2) Possible update in rankings in 1 week.

All in all, I will return here and will let you all know. I am personally wondering how it ends since there are people saying "do this and this", but I couldn't find any real numbers anyway anywhere.

rushikesh · 09-29-2007, 02:27 AM

best of luck and waiting to see what results appear

TheFriend · 09-29-2007, 05:01 AM

Good luck!
I am also anxious to see the results..........

Clarissa101 · 09-29-2007, 05:26 AM

I like your idea... and good luck!

guinanie · 09-29-2007, 09:00 AM

Goodluck! URL with keywords in Google would be a great idea. I am using this technique and for me it is easy to rank if your keywords is in the URL especially for blog.

x3mario · 09-29-2007, 10:23 AM

Good luck to you and watch your keyword.

Eire-Web Design · 09-29-2007, 11:57 AM

good luck and keep us posted.

searchbliss · 09-29-2007, 12:03 PM

I am certainly interested in the results, however, I cannot vote on the poll because I have no idea how your test will end.

tzd · 09-29-2007, 01:17 PM

There are two schools of thought here. On one hand, there will be a group that will say it wont matter, and on the other hand there will be people that will say it definitely will work towards your advantage. Depending on the keywords of choice, I for one believe it will improve your rankings.

janhvizdak · 10-01-2007, 11:39 PM

OK, here I bring first results. I can talk about 2 URLs yet, because the other ones haven't been alive 1 week at least.

My article from 12-th position moved to 5-th position

! The phrase is "aquarium filter".

Another article stays at the 2-nd position, but who knows if it's not gonna rank better soon. The phrase is "discus fish".

I think that I'll be wiser after 1 week because I updated totally about 15 URLs in order to expand this experiment.

The facts:

I removed the "?cur_lang=NUMBER&what=article&id=NUMBER" and replaced it with simple "?h=ARTICLETITLE". So the URL after "?" does contain keywords without hyphens (this is OK, G understands it) and what's more, the URL is shorter now. Also there is a 301 redirect from old URLs to new URLs (I mentioned it before as well).

I am waiting for more results to come soon

. Will keep all of you informed.

searchmaster · 10-02-2007, 01:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by janhvizdak

OK, here I bring first results. I can talk about 2 URLs yet, because the other ones haven't been alive 1 week at least.

My article from 12-th position moved to 5-th position

! The phrase is "aquarium filter".

Another article stays at the 2-nd position, but who knows if it's not gonna rank better soon. The phrase is "discus fish".

I think that I'll be wiser after 1 week because I updated totally about 15 URLs in order to expand this experiment.

The facts:

I removed the "?cur_lang=NUMBER&what=article&id=NUMBER" and replaced it with simple "?h=ARTICLETITLE". So the URL after "?" does contain keywords without hyphens (this is OK, G understands it) and what's more, the URL is shorter now. Also there is a 301 redirect from old URLs to new URLs (I mentioned it before as well).

I am waiting for more results to come soon

. Will keep all of you informed.

I am seeing you doing this with all other artilces as well

BTW this not the only reason you are ranking.............

Best of luck

janhvizdak · 10-02-2007, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by searchmaster

BTW this not the only reason you are ranking.............

Best of luck

Yes, I know it

.

Thanks.

Timdawg · 10-02-2007, 04:02 PM

Hi J,

Awesome experiment! I will be trying the same method shortly. It's nice to see a positive result before I give it a go!

Thanks for the post!

Tim

bond007 · 10-03-2007, 12:11 AM

Cool idea, keep going.

MichelRobinson2 · 10-03-2007, 02:39 AM

Good luck I like your idea

janhvizdak · 10-12-2007, 12:34 AM

OK, the final result is:

It works!

However, there is some time between re-indexing and re-ranking. This depends on your article popularity. Some URLs were re-indexed in 1-2 days and re-ranked in the next 7 days. But I also see a few URLs which haven't been re-indexed yet.

All in all, this technique is useful, it works and I have updated hundreds of URLs on my site.

What can you expect? If you are on the top30, you can easily move into the top15. If you're in the top20, you can get into the top10. And if you're in the top100, it is possible to get into the top30.

zagu060807 · 10-12-2007, 11:26 AM

keywords in URL can also give high points in SERP ranking

tzd · 10-12-2007, 06:55 PM

it will working... its part of theming a page...

redeemer_spawn · 10-16-2007, 09:47 AM

whao that could be a great idea and you saw the result it already., it really a help if your keywords have something to do with the url.,