sastro Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 What is the best url for seo : www.domain.com/it-is-the-url.html www.domain.com/it_is_the_url.html www.domain.com/it is the url.html (www.domain.com/it%20is%20the%20url.html) www.domain.com/itistheurl.html Thanks for help Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axeia Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Dashes and underscores are treated equally by google since <insert some date I forgot here> and are generally considered the best solution so go with either of those. I prefer underscores as the normal dash is sometimes used in words. (Though I haven't tested or research if searching for "some-word" would yield better results from a /some-word url than it would from a /some_word url. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-815626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 A url for an online article would be better off like this: http://www.domain.com/articles/2009/4/21/article-name-goes-here.php Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-816034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
coalgames Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Representatives of Google have released information. You should always aim for the first one but if you absolutely cant (changing old pages to new pages), just keep it as so. If you are making a new page, try to use the first one. This is the order they would prefer is: 1. www.domain.com/it-is-the-url.html 2. www.domain.com/it_is_the_url.html 3. www.domain.com/itistheurl.html Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-819870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Representatives of Google have released information. You should always aim for the first one but if you absolutely cant (changing old pages to new pages), just keep it as so. If you are making a new page, try to use the first one. This is the order they would prefer is: 1. www.domain.com/it-is-the-url.html 2. www.domain.com/it_is_the_url.html 3. www.domain.com/itistheurl.html I would like to question your claims. Google has stated that "-" and "_" do not make a difference. AS a matter of fact, you don't need any spaces. Google finds and compares strings to other string. - You don't need physical breaks. The only url schema google would have a problem with is dynamic variables, as it can't index dynamic urls. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-822393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
semlabs Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 I would go for: www.domain.com/it-is-the-url.html As far as I can tell Google treats - and _ differently. If you do a search for "hi_tek" and "hi-tek" you get different results. Also, try Googeling the following: site:wikipedia.org "hi_tek" site:wikipedia.org "hi-tek" On the one you don't get results. To my knowledge - is equated by Google to be a space, whereas _ is just considered to be itself. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-824317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the182guy Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 use-this-way.html It is the most common format and I would say it's better than this_way for SEO. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-825143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 As far as I can tell Google treats - and _ differently. If you do a search for "hi_tek" and "hi-tek" you get different results. Also, try Googeling the following: site:wikipedia.org "hi_tek" site:wikipedia.org "hi-tek" This is because google doesn't "search" urls for relevance. Instead it uses keywords from the url as a way to double check legitimacy of the page and relevance of the webpage content as it pertains to that page. Google's search engine treats "-" as a character of in itself. The hyphen is used in many words, while the underscore is never used within a word. (You had it reversed). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-826413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 The only url schema google would have a problem with is dynamic variables, as it can't index dynamic urls. Beggin your pardon, but Google can read dynamic URLs. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-831592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 The only url schema google would have a problem with is dynamic variables, as it can't index dynamic urls. Beggin your pardon, but Google can read dynamic URLs. Yes/no. Google can obviously read and index dynamic urls that have specific links to. However, google will not index dynamic pages when your website isn't very popular, and it would never be able to index more complex schema unless you make sitemap with a SPECIFIC link to each dynamic element. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-832108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
akanglil Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 point 1,2 and 4 i think... good for seo Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-864294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBlue Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 I don't really think it makes a difference with dynamic urls, I've had my sites indexed pretty fast, regardless of using dynamic urls. They however didn't rank as well, as when using the title as a part of the url. Google do currently, put more weight into urls with keywords. So using a url like This-is-the-title.html actually gives your site an unfair advantage, above those who use dynamic urls. Either Underscores or dashes would be fine, don't know how Yahoo and Live sees the underscores though. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-869283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Either Underscores or dashes would be fine, don't know how Yahoo and Live sees the underscores though. According to Matt Cutts (an engineer on the Google search team), only dashes are used as separators by Google and underscores aren't. That's not to say you should change from underscores to dashes if things are working fine for you though. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-869413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBlue Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Either Underscores or dashes would be fine, don't know how Yahoo and Live sees the underscores though. According to Matt Cutts (an engineer on the Google search team), only dashes are used as separators by Google and underscores aren't. That's not to say you should change from underscores to dashes if things are working fine for you though. Nope, thats from 2005. Matt Cutts spoke at WordCamp San Francisco 2007 conference saying that, Google will be going to treat underscores and dashes the same. Thats some time ago now. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-870322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-870328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Google do currently, put more weight into urls with keywords. So using a url like This-is-the-title.html actually gives your site an unfair advantage, above those who use dynamic urls. I would hardly call that an unfair advantage, an advantage, or advencement yes, but not an unfair one. A tiny bit of planning at the start of your project can give you a dynamic site (dynamic URIs) using normal URIs. Take Codeigniter the framework for example; http://www.example.com/about/the-team A simple htaccess file gets rid of the index.php file in the URI and gives you a fully dynamic site. The above will load the 'about' controller and run the 'the-team' method. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-871065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niku01 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I use www.domain.com/it-is-the-url.html Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-884708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejaboneta Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Google do currently, put more weight into urls with keywords. So using a url like This-is-the-title.html actually gives your site an unfair advantage, above those who use dynamic urls. I would hardly call that an unfair advantage, an advantage, or advencement yes, but not an unfair one. A tiny bit of planning at the start of your project can give you a dynamic site (dynamic URIs) using normal URIs. Take Codeigniter the framework for example; http://www.example.com/about/the-team A simple htaccess file gets rid of the index.php file in the URI and gives you a fully dynamic site. The above will load the 'about' controller and run the 'the-team' method. So would http://www.example.com/article1 better than http://www.example.com/article1.php ?? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-896207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Yeah, think from a computer's point of view. If somebody searched for "article1", "article1" would be a closer match than "article1.php". Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-896232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejaboneta Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Nope, thats from 2005. Matt Cutts spoke at WordCamp San Francisco 2007 conference saying that, Google will be going to treat underscores and dashes the same. Thats some time ago now. Would it be safe to use underscores then? How about dots? I need a seperator in addition to dashes. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-896276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Yeah, think from a computer's point of view. If somebody searched for "article1", "article1" would be a closer match than "article1.php". To add to that, although it may be a slightly better match, I highly doubt there's ever a situation where that small difference would win you a hit over someone else. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-896277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Nope, thats from 2005. Matt Cutts spoke at WordCamp San Francisco 2007 conference saying that, Google will be going to treat underscores and dashes the same. Thats some time ago now. Would it be safe to use underscores then? How about dots? I need a seperator in addition to dashes. Guess what? Separators were already addressed once in this excruciatingly long topic. A stunning two pages! How will I ever manage to work through all that text? And on top of that, having to watch a one minute long video, which was linked to, that also explains it! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-896363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejaboneta Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I've read the 2 pages and i was just a little confused. The conversation seemed to be going back and forth. And sorry, I didn't watch the video. I don't have working speakers connected. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-897055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BestEast Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I think www.domain.com/it-is-the-url.html is most liked by SEO Also ,I need to give some suggestions about URL writing: 1.Make your URL as short as possible. 2.Limit parameter in URL. 3.Including keywords in URL. 4.Don’t change your URL easily. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-912230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 1.Make your URL as short as possible. This is the url for a page on a site I've just done. I've changed the domain name, just because... www.example.com/our_services/fiduciary_services_for_private_clients Now there's a page called 'Fiduciary Services for Private Clients' that come under the heading of 'Our Services'. I could easily have made this something like the following; www.example.com/services.html Now is shorter always better? 2.Limit parameter in URL. Can you explain what you mean by this? 4.Don’t change your URL easily. Did you mean, don't change your URL often? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/154993-best-url-for-seo/#findComment-912278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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