actual search URL in HTML pages

does it add any relevancy?

[timmyc]

Im seeing on a few that are ranked on the engines something like this:

[google.com...]

does adding something like this in your page source add to relevancy?

[fiestagirl]

I believe that is Google doing their own tracking. Whenever this is going on I get a burst of 404s because people try to copy and paste instead of clicking on the link. Or possibly they are using some kind of rank checking tool, I'm not sure. All I know is I didn't add on the "q=widgets" to my page.

[timmyc]

Fiestagirl,

What I mean is , people are putting that in their pages to get ranked, Google didnt put it on there.
That would be the URL you would put into the browser for that search term.

The person replaced widgets for the keyword they wanted ranked.
Does an engine read this somehow and increase your relevance?
Ive seen some put it in their body, and others inside the meta tags.

[TWhalen]

If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe that is an *old trick* that person is using, which doesn't/never really worked.

The theory was that if you could send a spider to another search engine to search for a certain keyword and your site came up as one of the results, that the spider would give your site more relevance for that keyword.
Usually this was done using hidden links.

I tried it on a couple sites back when I first started doing SEO, but I never noticed any benefit from it so I stopped.