repeating keywords in subpage url adress bad for seo? or doesnt matter?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by jasonk1234, Nov 7, 2011.

  1. #1
    just looking at some of my urls for sup pages and see the same thing repeated 3 times in long url.
    example: yoursite. com/big-brown-dogs/big-brown-dogs-pictures/big-brown-dogs-pictures-part2

    should i be worried about creating urls like this and consiously make an effort to vary each subpage title?

    I would be interested in all of your thoughts.

    thank you
     
    jasonk1234, Nov 7, 2011 IP
  2. alexsss

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    #2
    I think this is not good a technique. Use keywords in URL's but in a meaningful way. The way you have created links looking spamming more, it will not beneficial for you. Also please keep URL short as much much as possible.

    This is my suggestion.
     
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    Agree...I suggest keep your URL short as much as possible
     
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    Inserting keyword once in URL is acceptable... Repeating keywords would be sort of keyword stuffing. Its not bad but I would never advise you to repeat keywords in sub page URLs.
     
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  5. jasonk1234

    jasonk1234 Well-Known Member

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    thanks for the info. is it ever neccesarry to have same words in each sub section?
    I am trying to stear clear of doing this but already have about 50 pages with multiple same words in url. homepage made pagerank one in about 3 weeks. thats probly normal?
     
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    j3thro Well-Known Member

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    Search engine will get confused in which URL to rank for your site's keyword if you keep repeating them. Google just had a recent major PR updates this month that's why you got PR 1 for your homepage.
     
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    No, having keyword in every seb-section is not mandatory... You can skip it.

    As far as keyword repetition in URL is concerned, i suppose there is no harm in doing that... but to me, its not a good preactice.

    If you have quality backlinks, you will get PR and you are luck that PR update happened within three weeks after the launch of your website.
     
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    Keyword rich urls are good to use but repetition is not good. use keyword only once in url
     
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  9. jasonk1234

    jasonk1234 Well-Known Member

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    I went back and changed about 40 or more page urls that contained triple keyword duplicates.

    Now many of my indexed and decently ranked pages on google are "Page not found".
    I only had 4 indexed pages on Yahoo (sites little over a month old) and 2 of the 4 are now "page not found".

    I hope this will not affect my site in the long run?
    how long till google reindexes and makes the "pages not found" disapear? I imagine no real timeline could be determined?
    I know it is natural for some pages to disapear so I should not be punished by google but I wonder if yahoo would not like this?

    thanks all. this forum helped me to grow sooos much
     
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  10. seriousbsnz

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    Im also going to have to agree with everyone and say this would be considered stuffing. Google looks down on this very much so and it is just like black hatters sutffing there webpages with meta keywords and using invisible text to trick the search engines into thinking there are more keywords on their page than there actually are.
     
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    I think it is surely counted as a keyword stuffing. You can better use relative urls strucutre to lower the keyword density in your website.
     
    nitinmainro, Nov 20, 2011 IP