SEO Friendly URL's with Duplicate Keyword

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by glhawk, Nov 15, 2009.

  1. #1
    Imagine that you have a website for cell phones (e.g., cell-phones.com)

    Now, I'm using wordpress and everytime I create a page or post I try to use the phrase "cell phones" in the topic of the post such as:

    Cell Phones: Which Carrier Has The Best Coverage?

    Thus my url will be created and look like this:

    cell-phones.com/cell-phones-which-carrier-has-the-best-coverage

    Should I delete the second "cell-phones" in the url since the main url already has it? and should I delete words such as "how" "to" "has" "the", etc?
     
    glhawk, Nov 15, 2009 IP
  2. glhawk

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    #2
    anyone any help??
     
    glhawk, Nov 16, 2009 IP
  3. neoanderson

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    Hi i suppose you should delete "cell-phones" and make it "cell phones" not quite sure better approach a wordpress expert. Or submit any internal page link to bookmarking site and let it index by google then using any backlink checker see how it has indexed.
     
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  4. Pixelrage

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    I think this practice looks both spammy and un-natrual. Adding your target keyword to the URL of every article will not help you rank for that keyword. Search engines nowadays are too smart to fall for it.
     
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  5. fadetoblack22

    fadetoblack22 Well-Known Member

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    #5
    If your site is about cell phones, then you don't need "cell-phones" in the url.
    Plus you don't really need it in the title of the page either because the user knows that you are talking about.
     
    fadetoblack22, Nov 16, 2009 IP
  6. Mr. Gill

    Mr. Gill Active Member

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    Agreed, remove the extra cell phones in the url because you already have that in your domain name.
     
    Mr. Gill, Nov 16, 2009 IP
  7. glhawk

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    Alright thanks guys :D...I don't really have a website about cell phones, I was just using it as an example.

    I guess I'm going to edit a lot of my posts/pages so that it doesn't have the word repeated as part of the url.
     
    glhawk, Nov 16, 2009 IP
  8. Brandon Sheley

    Brandon Sheley Illustrious Member

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    #8
    keywords in url's don't really carry much weight these days
    you should be fine w/e you choose
     
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    One important thing to note these days is that search engines will rank you based on synonyms... so if you're using the terms "mobile phone" or "cellular" and point it toward your cell phone site, that will also help.
     
    Pixelrage, Nov 18, 2009 IP
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    to the O.P: you should also remove words such as "how" "the" "why" etc because they wont be contributing to your site in anyway, in fact they may even damage your rankings (long tailed url)
     
    fbwebmaster, Nov 18, 2009 IP