Your files names are an SEO spot to be used…

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 23 of November , 2007 at 1:33 pm

Almost anyone that sets up a website knows that the domain name is important. But when naming a website some people cannot come up with a one word domain name. The first thought was how to separate the keywords<, or should it just be run together. Well the answer is it should not be all run together. Running words together just confuses the search engines, yes a silly as they seem at times they do know that cutekittens.com is not a real word. So then what do you do?

Well in recent months the search engines helped everyone out. The search engines in the past only saw a dash as a word separator. So in order for cutekittens.com to make any sense to them it had to be registered as cute-kittens.com; register cutekittens.com or cute_kittens.com and the engines saw it as one word and would not compute what that word was. Ok so only the dashes worded for the search engines, but it was not pleasing to the human reader. People have a tendency to over look the dash and still see only one word that did not make sense to them. Now we have the option of including the underscore; now when looking at the domain name underlined it makes perfect sense to all.

The same thing holds true for file or page names can utilize the same tricks. Put that underscore in and make the urls make sense to both the search engines and the human reader.

Category: SEO

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