How important is SEF

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by nadavbentor, Apr 6, 2008.

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    How important is Search engine URLs? If my site is running 2 years without them, should i invest in changing them?
    Will it definitely help my positions or is it a myth to make me pay more money?
     
    nadavbentor, Apr 6, 2008 IP
  2. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    It helps some but I would NOT change if your site has been going for 2 years. It will cause more problems than it would do good.
     
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  3. Kaabi

    Kaabi Well-Known Member

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    If you used a 301 redirect from the previous URLs to the new ones, you'd be okay for SEO.
     
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  4. EricBlackwell

    EricBlackwell Peon

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    It depends...how many posts do you have? It may get you a "marginal" benefit if you have a few posts and they have lots of juice...

    Best

    Eric
     
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    If he does proper 301 redirecting he'll be fine, the only problem that comes into play is the fact of the temporary SERPs drop as the value is passed long. From my experience it seems SERPs recover much fast than Pagerank, but then who really can tell about Pagerank since the visual Pagerank isn't updated that often. :)
     
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  6. nadavbentor

    nadavbentor Peon

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    Again - could you comment a bit more about the SEF- is google really giving it that much wheight?
    Does it count like keywords in A title?

    I have a few important pages in my site, and many others that are just trying to make the site relevant for the strong pages.
    Should i change for the SEF?
     
    nadavbentor, Apr 6, 2008 IP
  7. chaitanya.seo

    chaitanya.seo Banned

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    URL of website is not having much more relations with SERP,
    And Aron is 100% correct.
     
    chaitanya.seo, Apr 6, 2008 IP