Including the Keyword in the URL - after the Query?

[Nik_in_CA]

Hello all. First time poster,kind of new to the WebMaster World. Your input is appreciated.

Is it valid, and beneficial, (for seo purposes)to place the keyword in the URL after the query? Example:

www.mydomain.com/index.html?id=1&keyword=mykeyword

Will this be considered as good as:

www.mydomain.com/mykeyword/index.html?id=1

or as good as:

www.mykeyword.com/index.html?id=1

[CygnusX1]

Welcome Nik_in_CA,

If your talking about internal web-pages then I would say yes. For example if the keyword was "wedgets", then the following internal webpage would be better then a webpage without the keyword in the web-address.

wwWebmasterWorldebsite.com/wedgets/blue-wedgets.html

As you see the main page "wedgets" has the main keyword in it. Then the more internal webpage "blue-wedgets" has a more indepth webpage that brakes down the keyword in the first main page.

[Nik_in_CA]

Thank you, but what about the keyword in the query?

www.mydomain.com/index.html?seo="putmykeywordhere"

Purely for seo purposes. Benefit or waste of time?

[CygnusX1]

It would be best to have an address that doesn't look like it is database driven. I would focus on changing the address so it looks like html.