HTTP SEO URL Tutorial
What is a URL…
Although you might be thinking picking an internet URL is trivial at best meaning no thought should go into I disagree. From choosing the right extension to crafting an easy to remember website URL can help you gain more visitors.
The length of your site url is limited by two factors first one being is it easy to remember and the second being the shorter the url the greater the chance the said personal url is being used.
Longer URL’s get more visibility. I should say the more keywords in the URL the more variations of those search terms you will list for. A 2 word domain has the 4 possible word variations. For one each keyword can be searched for independently and two variations of the keyword used together for a total of 4 variations.
A domain name that contains three keywords has 3 possible singular search terms in it. 6 possible 2 word variants and 6 possible 3 word variants. A three word domain has a total of 15 possible keyword variations. Not bad. Here are some search terms we rank for to get my point across…
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You should ask yourself one question when picking a web url. Is it easy to remember? The question will answer a lot of questions like should I use hyphens or underscores in my url.
Matt Cutts who is part of Google Webspam Team says use hyphens not underscores…
That’s why I would always choose dashes instead of underscores. To answer a common question, Google doesn’t algorithmically penalize for dashes in the url. Of course I can only speak for Google, not other search engines.
The question you should ask yourself is will visitors remember to use those hyphens and underscores that separate your keywords in your main URL? I would say most likely not.
So a hyphen is the answer when creating articles in the post url but in your top level url I would not use them because people will not remember to use them either.
URL Extensions – URL Type
- .com
- Most used domain
- .net
- Used for networks but second most used domain
- .org
- Third most used extension used by organizations
- .biz
- Used for businesses
- Geo urls .us, .ca and ect
- These url extension comes with restrictions based on your geo location.
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Again Scot, thanks, i am currently looking at used domains to buy instead of creating one and it is turning into a long drawn out process, the search for domain that suits my site, which will be on all things positive in health, mind and body. am looking at a site, thehealthynews.com which does sum up what i’m about, it is not aged, just developed to sell on, any ideas before i take the plunge?
Keep up the good news,
Caroline
It looks good Caroline. I just did a search through Alexa, Semrush and Google. When researching domains you will want to type in Google search field site:thehealthynews.com
Nothing is showing up in SemRush,Alexa and it is being sold through Sedo Which is another website I highly recommend. I found this out by doing a whois search.
Also that website is redirecting to http://jordan.myshaklee.com/us/en/ that looks like a legitimate website.