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Keyword as URL

by Rapidfyre
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How much of a difference does it make if your url is your actual keyword or a sub site? Example, if my keyword is widget does it matter is my url is widget.com or mysite/widget.com? Can I assume that the major factor is making sure your page is well optimized and has many back-links so the url would not be that important comparing the 2 above.

Thank you for any help

Larry
#keyword #url
  • Profile picture of the author webcosmo
    having the keyword on url helps a lot.
    for example if you are to target keyword sauce you can have a page name like sauce.html
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  • Profile picture of the author marcuslim
    Yes, having the keyword in the url is a factor in how search engines rank the given page for the keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hoodyy
    Having the keyword in your domain helps incredibly.

    I'm getting beat by someone who currently has the non-plural version of my domain simply for that factor. Well, I outrank him in the plural version and vice versa, but unfortunately the higher search volume is from the unpluraled version.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Rodman
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    I'm going against the grain of the other posts, but it is of very little help.

    Don't get me wrong, if I had the choice, I'd chose the domain with the keyword in it. But the only benefit to having a keyword in the domain is if someone just links http://www.yourdomain.com/keyword.html with no anchor text. The link already contains keywords, so you have a link with keywords. But most of the time you have control over the anchor text to some degree so I would say it's of relatively little value.
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  • Profile picture of the author Owen Smith
    It makes a big difference, probably the difference of being ranked first or on page 15. It is a big contributing factor, I personally find.

    I have done a trial on this, trying to rank for a keyword with small competition and no backlinks, the same day I changed the URL, my rankings shot up!

    Regards
    Owen
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  • Profile picture of the author james0072011
    Having a keyword in website url gives a great result.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rapidfyre
    Thank you everyone for responding. I think I will attempt to make my url and major keyword the same Thank you again
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