urls in title - advantage or not?

[merlin78]

Hi all,

I have come across alot of sites lately that list their url in their title. I would like to know whether this is an advantage for higher rankings or not? If it is an advantage, does this apply for all search engines or a few? For a better understanding do a search at FAST on the keywords "new car prices" and have a look at the sites which start with their url in the title. Several other search engines such as Google, AltaVista and Hotbot also have some of these sites in the top ten.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[drbill]

I have never gone that far as to place my Url in my title.. i have used keywords in my url that are also in my title..

Anyone else got any Ideas. Cmon Lurkers i know you are there:)

[chiyo]

Im seeing in google especially and AV that having the exact phrase people are searching on in your title AND body text (esp as a link or Heading) AND less so but possibly your URL, is the key.

Im pretty sure that maybe that is the effect you are seeing, not so much the URL. Tell me if I'm wrong anybody , just an observation.

[rencke]

I am a great believer in URL in title - assuming that both are frequent keywords. A customer of mine has several sites with this arrangement and others without. The ones with URL=keyword1-keyword2 and title=keyword1 keyword 2 are doing phenomenally well for keyword1. One site has 29 first page placements in major SE:s, of which 7 in the #1 spot.

[mark roach]

I believe it does have a small bearing in some engines, but not that much of an impact. I have some sites that do very badly for the keywords in their name. There is however one engine www.mirago.co.uk that will place your site top if the keyword search exactly matches the words in the domain name.

[rencke]

>some sites that do very badly for the keywords in their name
Mark: Did they have the url in the title?

[Mike_Mackin]

In the title:
keyword keyword .com = people may search for a keyword
keywordkeyword.com = NOT A WORD at all

imho

[mark roach]

Rencke - The pages have the keywords in the title, headers, links etc. I think I ODed on KWD though ! (Alta hates them Fast loves them).

Mike mirago can spot keyword1keyword2.com domain names see here [mirago.co.uk]

It can also spot keyword1k eyword2 :)

[rencke]

Take a look at this:
[webmasterworld.com...]
If the page I am writing about is not cloaked, then we would have to assume that AV is capable of deriving the keyword "sweden" from the url www.fcsweden.se, however farfetched that idea may seem. And give enourmous weight to keyword in url. Besides, note the url of the site in the #1 spot for the search. That site is a portal with pretty thin content compared to some of the other sites in pages 1-3.