SEO Tip #105: How Important Is It To Have Keywords In A Domain Name?

SEO Tip  #105: How Important Is It To Have Keywords In A Domain Name?

Matt Cutts: What Mcdot is referring to in this question is that if you’re registering a new domain name and you want to try and compete in some particular niche in SEO you can take a couple different strategies. You can go for something really brandable like Twitter that people will remember but isn’t necessarily keywords in the domain name or you can go for strictly the keywords in the
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SEO Tip #71: Is It Better to Have Keywords in the URL Path or Filename?

SEO Tip #71: Is It Better to Have Keywords in the URL Path or Filename?

Matt Cutts: If you were falling asleep during that question I’ll try to make it a little more concrete. Would you rather have stuff in the path name or would you rather have stuff all together at once in the filename? To me the answer is that it doesn’t really make that much difference. This is a perfect example where you can do some questions; you can do some experimenting and
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SEO Tip #24: Does the position of keywords in the URL affect ranking?

SEO Tip #24: Does the position of keywords in the URL affect ranking?

Matt Cutts: Truthfully I wouldn’t really obsess about it at that level of detail. It does help a little bit to have keywords in the URL. It doesn’t help so much that you should go stuffing a ton of keywords into your URL. You know if there’s a convenient way that’s good for users where you have four or five keywords that might be worthwhile, but I wouldn’t obsess about it
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How to Use Search Engine Optimization with WordPress

Search engine optimization is vital for the success of any blog or website.  By following some simple rules, alongside the help of various plug-ins, it’s easy to make your Wordpress site more search engine friendly.  This means that when someone types relevant keywords into a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, you will appear as high as possible in the results, preferably on the first page.  More people will
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