URL SEO Advantages

So I've got the domain www.marketing-agency.biz and I have two questions -

Question 1 -
If I am targeting the term 'Marketing Agency', which URL would be more successful at ranking for the term -

marketing-agency.biz
marketing-agency.biz/marketing-agency.php
marketing-agency.biz/marketing-agency/
marketing-agency.biz/marketing-agency/marketing-agency.php


Question 2 -
If I am targeting the term 'Website Marketing', which URL would be more successful at ranking for the term -

marketing-agency.biz/website-marketing.php
marketing-agency.biz/website-marketing/
marketing-agency.biz/website-marketing/website-marketing.php

 

hi dude

i have suggest for 'Marketing Agency' for url :

www.marketing-agency.biz/marketing-agency/

also Website Marketing' for :

www.marketing-agency.biz/website-marketing/

Thanks

 

Ok, thanks.

Everybody agree with him?

 

Yes, he made 2 great suggestions.

word-word is better than word_word

.php .htm or the / are all fine, as long as it displays a page

 

I agree with that, the extension does not matter.

 

If you are targeting the Keyword "Marketing Agency" ...its better if you keep your domain - marketing-agency.biz rather than anything else to get the domain advantage. Now no matter on which sub folder or category you put your real content in, if your home page has related content and if you have done SEO properly ...your Home Page (marketing-agency.biz) will show up before any of your sub pages in the search result for this particular keyword.

For the 2nd term, I suggest -

marketing-agency.biz/website-marketing/

 

I fully agree, marketing-agency.biz/marketing-agency.php is just way too spammy and being a sub-page it will be harder to get backlinks from directories etc.

Also agree with BlindCat on the second option as well.

 

The second one is ok, but for the 1st one just stick to your URL. Overloading your url with keywords is not a good idea.

 

Hehe, I didn't notice that with the first question the alternatives would be spammy, I just wondered if they would have SEO benefit.

Thanks for all the responses.

 

It is a good suggestion. Extension doesnot matter

 

Matt Cutts also said that key-word is better than key_word in th URL since google reads undrscores as a part of some program syntax... but DIGG uses underscore all the same and ranks for many phrases and words so u never know... Digg is the best ever SEOed site, and even Markus of plentyoffish agrees

 

I would have thought that Wikipedia is best SEOed, they rank for EVERYTHING. Wikipedia has an interesting trick that they write their code illogically so the main content occurs first in the code e.g. -

<div style="float: right;">Main Content</div>
<div style="float: left;">Left column</div>

 

Wiki ranks well for their authority. But I think that won't be the case after few years...Google will start their own wiki

 

I have read that keywords in the url does absolutely nothing for seo purposes. Anyone know of any hardcore tests that "prove" this one way or the other?

 

I've tried them every way and I don't think the urls mean crap. The domain does, though.

At least, that way, everyone is forced to link to your with anchor text, whether they intend to or not.

 

Use + instead of - whenever you can.

Ex: file+name.html

 

I have the URL www.PopularScreensaver.info, it ranks 5th for 'Popular Screensavers' with not much SEO and 'Popular Screensavers' gets 12,000 searches per month. That's proof enough for me.

 

You serious? I never see any successful websites doing that.

 

in my opinion, you must use the first options for both keywords.

because it's allways better to have urls near your main domain