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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Matt Cutts: My short answer is not too worry about that very much. Not very much at all, in fact.
Danny Sullivan had asked about this recently because there were some registrars that were sending around emails that saying, that said ah, “did you know, that Google gives you a bonus in rankings if you register your site for three or more years”.
And just to clarify that’s not based on anything
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Matt Cutts: The short answer is not right now. Now let’s give a little more color.
Of course if a site takes so long to load that we can’t even fetch it, Googlebot can’t get a copy of it, then that will have an effect on your rankings because your site is essentially timing out. If your site is taking 20 or 30 seconds to respond to requests that could be
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