How Does Google Read a URL?

by CaptainKirk

Posted: 13 years ago 11 replies

Can anyone tell me how does Google read a url...from left to right or right to left?

I want to add my name to a keyword then purchase that url and want to know which url is the better one...e.g. www.KeywordMyName.com or www.MyNameKeyword.com

Someone said to me that google reads a url from right to left, meaning that it would read the .com first, then the word preceeding the .com next, however I want to believe that the logical way to read anything in English is from left to right and that I should therefore place the keyword before my name.

So I'd be happy if someone more learned than me would tell me which way is best.

Many Thanks,

Kirk

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CDarklock

13 years ago

Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

Someone said to me that google reads a url from right to left, meaning that it would read the .com first, then the word preceeding the .com next, however I want to believe that the logical way to read anything in English is from left to right and that I should therefore place the keyword before my name.

Internet-accessing computers read the URL from left to right, but the dot-separated components of a hostname from right to left.

So the url

http :// www . whatever . com / folder / subfolder / filename . html

Gets read as

http com whatever www folder subfolder filename html

The choice of whether to use "whatever" or "everwhat" before the .com is completely irrelevant and neither Google nor any other machine will ever understand the conceptual difference between them. It understands that they are different, and that both of them contain "ever" and "what" within them, but it really does not give a toss.

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CaptainKirk 13 years ago

OK Thanks for that insight, now here's the crux of the matter... When someone does a search they will search for the keyword and not my name so which am I better off using...www.KeywordMyName.com or www.MyNameKeyword.com or does it not even matter?
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Steven Fullman

13 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

So the url

http :// www . whatever . com / folder / subfolder / filename . html

Gets read as

http com whatever www folder subfolder filename html

You know I hate pedantry, Cal...my friend (how are you, by the way?)...

But you missed out a period...

The url:

http :// www . whatever . com / folder / subfolder / filename . html

Gets read as:

. com whatever www folder subfolder filename html

...the initial period indicates the root nameservers, which are queried whenever your local hosts file, local dns cache, or your IPS's dns cache can't resolve the IP address of whatever.com

You know this, of course.

Cheers,
Steve

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CDarklock

13 years ago

Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

does it not even matter?

It does not even matter.

Originally Posted by Steven Fullman

You know I hate pedantry, Cal...my friend (how are you, by the way?)...

Doing okay, I suppose. You should Skype me sometime, we never talk.

But you said it yourself:

...the initial period indicates the root nameservers, which are queried whenever your local hosts file, local dns cache, or your IPS's dns cache can't resolve the IP address of whatever.com

I didn't leave it out. It happens elsewhere in the process, may not happen at all, and you presume that the resource will be located via DNS... and, indeed, that the DNS servers in question are operated with Berkeley-compatible configuration files.

Although, you know, pedantry really is a terrible thing.

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Steven Fullman

13 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

It does not even matter.

Doing okay, I suppose. You should Skype me sometime, we never talk.

But you said it yourself:

I didn't leave it out. It happens elsewhere in the process, may not happen at all, and you presume that the resource will be located via DNS... and, indeed, that the DNS servers in question are operated with Berkeley-compatible configuration files.

Although, you know, pedantry really is a terrible thing.

Lol, you know what...I should Skype you.

Although I can't imagine a world where "whatever.com" could be resolved by anything other than DNS...and let's face it...BIND still roolz.

Merry Xmas if we don't speak before,
Steve

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CDarklock 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Fullman

Although I can't imagine a world where "whatever.com" could be resolved by anything other than DNS...

It wasn't that long ago that NetBEUI was the default resolution scheme for Windows networks, and you could readily hijack your entire office's browsing by naming your computer after an internet website and installing a transparent proxy.

In my government contracting days, I learned an awful lot about my office mates by running machines named "playboy.com" and "nascar.com" in the server room.
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scortillion 13 years ago

Search engines cannot tell that your website www.YourWebSite.com is Your Web Site .com come it sees it as just one big word if you want the site name to be of value in the SEO you should have it as www.Your-Web-Site.com The search engines can then see all 3 keywords.
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- CaptainKirk 13 years ago
  
  Thx James, Now that's good to know!
  
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RichardHK 13 years ago

Interesting stuff. Thanks to you pedants!

Have an on-topic similar query: How does Google interpret an url that repeats part of domain name for clarity?

http :// www . Keyword1Keyword2Otherword . com / about-keyword1-keyword2-keyword3-keyword4 . html

Keywords 1-4 are the business name. Hyphens in page name for clarity, although I am sure Google would read Ok without.

Would Big G penalize the repetition?

Hope that makes sense.
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- Cataclysm1987 13 years ago
  
  I don't know, why don't you call Google customer service?
  
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staceymattew 13 years ago

Google will crawl from left to right side only standard format.
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