keywords in URL

After lurking here for a while it would seem that putting keywords in your
url is a good idea!
I am redesigning a site and would like to take the opportunity to add some
good keywords to his url, so if I have a directory called
keyword1-keyword2-keyword3, and a file called
keyword4-keyword5-keyword6.html do you think this would be acceptable to
google?
Obviously the keywords would be relevant to the page concerned and would be
in the text on the page as many times as possible....

Thanks for your input....

Les.

do you think this would be acceptable to
google?

acceptable, yes. essential, no.

"Brothermark" <yonnermark (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

do you think this would be acceptable to
google?

acceptable, yes. essential, no.

Thanks,
Les.

Wrong! Keywords in your url will not help you at all with google. You're
finally catching up to what worked 3 years ago when aol search was king
and to get to page one you stuffed your url address with keywords.
Google doesn't use keywords to rank a site at all. You only need one
single keyword in your entire site with google and that's just to tell
it where your site belongs. The only thing that matters with google is
your url address and it can litterally be anything under the sun that
has nothing to do with where your site belongs. In other words you can
have a site about dogs that you want listed under a search for dogs and
your url could be www.fordmotorcompany.com and it wouldn't make one dam
bit of difference to google.

Sam wrote:

Wrong! ...

who/what is?

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William Tasso - http://WilliamTasso.com

Wrong! Keywords in your url will not help you at all with google.

Not true.
Keywords in your DOMAIN (we're not talking about urls here are we?) will
help your serps.

Imagine this scenario.

Your site is called www.blue-widgets.com and over time you manage to get
over 100 backlinks which all look something like this:

www.blue-widgets.com

Good supply of blue widgets for people in North-West Widgetville
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

We know that one of the main factors that determine your serps is backlinks
AND the link-text used for those backlinks. In the above example, the terms
"blue" and "widgets" are keywords within the link-text and that can only
mean one thing..... good serps for "blue widgets"

No?
Why not?

Mark

You're listening to seo too much with his 'anchor text' ideas. That is
not what a text link is. Type a url, any url into the google search box
and look what comes up. you'll see similiar links, Link to, and Contaon
the term. Link to are your hyper links, the ones you can click on that
will take you to the site. Text links are the contain the term links.
Those are links written in plain text that you cannot click on and are
not active hyper links. Keywords have nothing to do with a link being a
text link and google could care less if you have blue widgets a million
times in your url anchor text or in your website. What it wants to see
is the url address itself www.yoururladdress.com in text at as many
sites as it can find it at. Text or contain the term links are the most
underated link there is by most people who don't know better and just as
important as link to's or hyper links in getting high ranking and
listing under your keyword search in google. That's why guestbooks exist
and it's all they are good for IMO. Get it now or does it take the sky
to fall on your head to figure it out???

Get it now or does it take the sky
to fall on your head to figure it out???

There's no need to be rude.
If you want to reply politely, we can continue the discussion.

Mark

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:59:10 GMT, Sam <. (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

You're listening to seo too much with his 'anchor text' ideas. That is
not what a text link is.

It's SEO Dave now :-))

Rest of post not read as probably filled with inaccuracies.

David
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Free Search Engine Optimization, SEO and
Search Engine Placement Tips (updated 31/08/2003)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ooar123...-optimization/

You're listening to seo too much with his 'anchor text' ideas. That is
not what a text link is.

Rest of post not read as probably filled with inaccuracies.
David

SEO Dave. Much better name
The rest of his post was actually quite "rambly" and had no formatting
making it awkward to read.

mark