What is URL optimization?

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    What is URL optimization ? Is it necessary to optimize URLs of a website ?
     
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  2. Corestratagems

    Corestratagems Active Member

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    The only thing that brings to mind is making sure your URL's have the keyword in the URL. I don't know of any other way to optimize a URL. Generally speaking if you have an authority site with killer content and a large following then you could care less about optimizing your URL's. If you believe that Google still puts some value in seeing a URL with the keyword in it then you should optimize your URL's. If you use WordPress this is done on the Settings --> Permalinks setting. Change it to the "Post Name" option and make sure the title of your posts has your keyword(s) in it and you have just optimized your URL's. Just don't stuff them with keywords. These days Google can tell what your content is about based on the content but as long as your title is relevant and not spammy it doesn't hurt to have the keyword in it. This is pretty standard.
     
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    What is URL optimization ?
    They are called seo freindly urls. Just take a look at this page url at dp and you'll see that it is seo optimized.

    Is it necessary to optimize URLs of a website ?
    Every bit of optimization helps in better positioning.
     
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    HostGarou Active Member Affiliate Manager

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    I definitely agree with @niceboy ,SEO-friendly URLs are purely structural URLs that do not contain a query string [e.g., action=delete&id=91] and instead contain only the path of the resource (after the scheme [e.g., http] and the authority [e.g., example.org]).

    The most often cited reasons for using clean URLs is for search engine optimization, but clean URLs can also greatly improve usability and accessibility. Removing unnecessary parts simplifies URLs and makes them easier to type and remember
     
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    rashida Active Member

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    Keyword rich urls are the best SEO friendly Urls. Make your urls seo friendly so that it ranks high your website.
     
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    Rewriting URLs in order to make them user friendly is a part of on page seo audit.
    A few things to keep in mind regarding URLs is that they shouldn't be too long, but preferably contain your target keywords.
    More to that, when there are keywords in the URL, once you post a link somewhere, the keywords will appear as an anchor text.
     
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    URL Optimization is all about taking a URL with your targeted keywords.
     
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    Helge Sverre Prominent Member Affiliate Manager

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    url optimization means that keyword should be in url but not full keyword in url.
    more information you can read in edm update
     
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    Friendly urls called url optimization.... its necessary for high ranking....
     
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    Hello,

    The name of your website i.e. URL is very important for SEO through URL search engine realizes theme for a particular website.SEO friendly URL begin with domain name and also have targeted keywords, avoid using long URL,static URL is better tan dynamic URL.

    Thank you..
     
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    Its very important for your site. because of people are searching querys only its called keywords in seo .SEO in terms of material on a website it is most often concerning the search text. The URL of a web page is a fundamental element of SEO and must also contain search phrases that are consistent with the other material on the website.
     
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    Is this also important when creating accounts for youtube or does it matter?
     
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    Once creating youtube videos keywords is must important .
     
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    You got the best answer from Corestratagems (#2) for understanding URL optimization in clean words. While it is true that search engines go to great lengths to read and index even the worst URLs, attention to URL management and optimization will provide both SEO and usability advantages.
     
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    URL optimization means to make your sites URL search engine friendly so that it help in ranking high in SERPs.
     
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    Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is part of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is a reference to the location of a web page or a resource on the web. Alternatively, we call it as ‘web page address’ or ‘website address’. URI also specifies the way to retrieve that web resource . Most of the times, the terms ‘URI’ and ‘URL’ are used alternatively.
     
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    Url Optimization means optimizing the url structure so that search engines can crawl your pages efficiently and include your keywords in the url.
     
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