Amazon Affiliate Website - Optimizing Posts' URLs

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Macavi, Dec 15, 2010.

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    I have done my research on some Amazon products and have come up with a list of over thousand. I have done keyword research for each product and chose 2 keywords. Obviously having 2 keywords in post's URL will not make sense so i have to choose 1 between them.

    Questions:

    1. When publishing a post, should i edit post's slug (URL) and name it after 1 keyword?
    2. Or should i use post's title as URL?

    A lot of products that i researched have identical keywords. So if i choose 1st option then i will have to have URLs' structure as following:

    /%postname%/%post_id%/

    (Post ID is to make URL unique from others to avoid duplication of URLs because of duplicate keywords)

    So it will look like this:

    http://www.mydomain.com/calphalon/calphalon-griddlecrepe-pan/1937/

    The problem with this option is that i will only have 1 keyword targeted for exact query (calphalon griddlecrepe pan). So i will need to choose between 2 keywords.

    If i choose 2nd option then, i will have product's title instead of researched keyword which will look like this:

    http://www.mydomain.com/calphalon/calphalon-commercial-nonstick-10-inch-international-griddlecrepe-pan/

    This option with title will make URLs unique without need of having /%post_id%/ but URL will not be optimized for 1 of keywords i researched. Also as URL will be longer this might attract visitors from various other queries.

    What should i do?

    I want professional answers only. Please do not post if your aim is to increase your post count.

    Thanks.
     
    Macavi, Dec 15, 2010 IP