Search Engine Rank

MtyBaldOne · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 3

So I think I know some of the tricks to get my site ranked, but I was wondering if any of you guys know if an Optimized URL is still important?

garynewelluk · Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland

The most important thing about rankings nowadays is how many sites link back to your site and how many of those sites are relevant to the content on your site.

There are a lot of SEO sites claiming to guarantee you a top 10 ranking.
They do that by placing a load of text content with keywords added. To do this add a keyword 6 to 8 times in a 450 word piece of text. Do this on a number of articles (10 to 15) and when spiders visit your site they count the keywords and see that your site content is relevant to your metatags.

Google and the gang however worked out that companies were doing this and so work more on link backs now and hardly any search engines worry about metatags.

fairdoes · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 39 Location: u.k.

The only exception to Gary's 'metatags' info is Yahoo - they use the keywords rather a lot.

Another thing that helps is legitimate googlebombing - instead of saying "my brilliant article on xxx is here". Try "xxx is what you want to read". Google definitely take note of the link text; I suspect that msn do too. Smile

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rohoni · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 5

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mrLenin · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

And dont forget that back links should have high PR too. Law or zero PR does not play any role

mrLenin · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

dodo1 · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 24

thanks for the summery Fairdoes!

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rajweb · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 14

Back in 2004 optimized urls were hottest thing selling on our planet.

During the last few years , google and other search engines are becoming aware of these tactics, and they simply do not give away rankings based on optimized url's

You will have to follow the same tedious ways of building up rankings, and your optimized url will certainly help you.

Use a combination of max 2-3 words, and not more than that Cool

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jackdomain · Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 7

in my webmaster blog i have each post optimized for search engine,if the url shows an idea of the content of that page if will be great for both, search engines and persons