Search Engine Optimization URL Keywords

Unfortunately, a lot of webmasters and bloggers ignore search engine optimized URL’s on their own web sites or blogs. This is very huge mistake, which may highly decrease traffic through search engines to your web site or blog. Creating good and keyword based URL’s on your sites is very important step for professional webmasters. In this article I will try to describe you why not to ignore your SEO related URL’s on own web sites.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s possible to rank higher if you have not good and keyword contented URL’s. But with right URL’s, with good keyword selection, you will have better advantage over your competition which doesn’t have right and optimized URLs.

Domain Name is Important

Domain name is also very important, because it’s the part which search engines scans regularly. Main domain name before “/” is also part of domain name which search engines may display on own results pages and can gives you right results and better position if you have related content to domain name on your web site or blog.

Search Engines

Search engines scans and take notes for keywords in URLs differently. Keyword in URLs are more important for Yahoo! and Windows Live search engines. Google importance for keywords in URLs is little lower than two mentioned above! But even Google have relatively high weight for them.

Keywords in URLs

As you can read, keywords are very important for your better search engine results page positions and may increase your site traffic rapidly! Use SEO based keywords, but don’t include common words in your URLs. Common words are: “for, as, in, out, is” and similar short word combination.

Conclusions

If you have read whole article, you know that keywords are very important for better search engine optimization of your web site or blog. Take care to optimize your keywords in your contents, because without them you won’t get the most effective results from your web site. Doing this right, you may increase traffic to your site from main search engines on the world.