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Question about Keywords in File Names

         

Shiznaught

11:01 am on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I'm working on a site which has the main keyword in it's domain, and I'm looking to have several sub-keyword pages on the site.

So how about:

green-widget.com/books.html

or

green-widget.com/green-widget-books.htm

?

I am trying to target "green widget books" in this specific example, but I am also targetting trying to target all things "green widget" related.

Any kind of help on this topic would be appreciated.

Shiznaught

7:16 pm on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

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To ad to my question, what about the other possibilities:

green-widget.com/books

green-widget.com/greenwidgetbooks.html

mkfoto

8:50 pm on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yea I'd be interested to know if putting keywords in file names helps at all to? Anyone?

pageoneresults

2:11 am on Mar 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yea I'd be interested to know if putting keywords in file names helps at all to?

Forget about the search engines for a moment. Think how easy it would be to manage a site that was organized in sub-directories that were named appropriately. Don't go overboard. One word, two words and maybe, just maybe, three word sub-directory names. Keep hyphens in the URI string minimized, the less the better. Make the linking path natural and easy to type in.

I'm a firm believer that keywords in the URI string are of importance. Particularly at the sub-directory level.