Keyword in URL-

shahab6 · 03-26-2008, 07:40 PM

How important is that of having your keyword in your URL?

Or it doesn't matter at all?
Is it a small factor, average factor or big factor?

potchie · 03-26-2008, 07:46 PM

in my opinion.. there's a factor.. but not that much

in making a domain, much better that is related to the theme of the site, for it easy to memorize, and also regarding with SE, it has the nice factor coz SE love relavancy,, 20% on SERP you can get from putting KW on your domain.

tdd1984 · 03-26-2008, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shahab6

How important is that of having your keyword in your URL?

Or it doesn't matter at all?
Is it a small factor, average factor or big factor?

not important as what people make it out to be use your brand name

dee_el07 · 03-27-2008, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by shahab6

How important is that of having your keyword in your URL?

Or it doesn't matter at all?
Is it a small factor, average factor or big factor?

Its a big factor when in comes to your SERP rankings..

zeruel · 03-27-2008, 12:52 AM

Well as for my point of view, it plays an average factor because it really depends. Regardless of situations. Regardless of competition. And I think URLs must be easy to memorize.

ezhel · 03-27-2008, 01:27 AM

it has a plus factor having your keywords in your domain, it's easy to crawl and easy to find.

tomfrederick · 03-27-2008, 02:04 AM

important keyword in url is good for seo purpose. if keyword is long you ucan use underscore in keyword.

x3mario · 03-27-2008, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shahab6

How important is that of having your keyword in your URL?

Or it doesn't matter at all?
Is it a small factor, average factor or big factor?

Having keyword in your url can add impact in your serp ranking. You can add 3-4 keywords in your url separated by hyphen.

mit · 03-27-2008, 02:28 AM

In my view and from my experience, it helps having your targeted keywords in the URL in search engine rankings but a little help.

Tripta_Kneoteric · 03-27-2008, 04:26 AM

If someone is selling a URL with a keyword in it, and you think that you could make use of it then you should not miss it out.

But with a URL having a keyword in a domain that you are not very knowledgeable about, should be avoided.

Instead a unique name be targeted which should work better.

arcel · 03-27-2008, 05:54 AM

adding keywords in you URL does have a factor in SERP ranking.

cessai · 03-27-2008, 06:33 AM

it can help

but not that much. There are still more important things to consider.

dvenkat · 03-27-2008, 07:11 AM

it helps a lot. search engines gives more weightage to the url's which have targeted keywords included in them.

digitalseo · 03-27-2008, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by x3mario

Having keyword in your url can add impact in your serp ranking. You can add 3-4 keywords in your url separated by hyphen.

hyphenated url? is that what you mean?...

i think that is not good idea the fact that its really hard for users

to remember that...

zeruel · 03-27-2008, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by x3mario

Having keyword in your url can add impact in your serp ranking. You can add 3-4 keywords in your url separated by hyphen.

I don't think it is really advisable to do that. 3 to 4 keywords with a hyphen in URL wouldn't be that easy to type and memorize...

Just like what I have said, it really depends on the situation.

sniperhiga · 03-27-2008, 12:08 PM

It is important factor for new websites. Many old websites have url like /bhnasdfcgjk46237846/dfgbak/47.php but they have domain age and domain trust which help them to bypass this SEO factor.

mdsiddiq · 03-27-2008, 01:34 PM

not too good idea but its fine

Filepeter · 03-27-2008, 02:36 PM

This has been discussed zillions of times already. Back in the 90s, having the keyword in the URL was very important and helpful, however things changed as we all know. Search engines started to semantically search for the right results with the LSI method, new-age SEOs are not just the old coders hiding and stuffing keywords in the site code, its a whole new science now.

Anyway, having the keyword in the domain still matters abit, but lets give it a "random" percent of how much it helps for the ranking, about 5%.

anie_b · 03-28-2008, 01:54 AM

It can have positive impact in SERP Rankings.
It is also easy for the users to remember keyword rich domains.

x3mario · 03-28-2008, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by digitalseo

hyphenated url? is that what you mean?...

i think that is not good idea the fact that its really hard for users

to remember that...

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeruel

I don't think it is really advisable to do that. 3 to 4 keywords with a hyphen in URL wouldn't be that easy to type and memorize...

Just like what I have said, it really depends on the situation.

How hard? Hyphenated url is easy to remember than in a long url that composed of 3-4 keywords.

example:

given-choice-choose-brand.co.uk

and

givenchoicechoosebrand.co.uk

Which one is easy to remember? Hyphen is being recognize by spiders.

Another reason to use hyphenated domain names is when two words joined together like in a domain name could imply or even state a different meaning or unintentional phrases.

The following is an example: <http://www.basketballshopping.com/>

www.basketballshopping.com could be read as basketball shopping or basketballs hopping, two completely different thoughts and contexts. Avoid confusing phrases altogether or use hyphens to separate the words.