Hello Guys/Gals, If you don't know the answer to this question, please don't reply. for the url question: If I'm trying to rank for keyterm: Aperture San Diego would it be better to use: http://www.downtown92101condos.com/downtown-san-diego-aperture or http://www.downtown92101condos.com/downtown-san-diego/aperture Which one and why? is it better to use a / or - ? For the title tag question: I'm trying to rank for Aperture San Diego would it be better to use: Aperture San Diego Downtown - Aperture Condos & Lofts Real Estate or Aperture | Aperture San Diego Downtown | Condos Lofts Real Estate which one and why? again, is it better to use / or - ? thanks in advance! mike
It is better to use a hyphen - compared to / slash because each time you try to create a url with slash / then you need to create a subdirectory. But with hyphen its not necessary to create a subdirectory. And it would be easy for your site readers to remember a simple hyphened url when compared to urls filled with slash. For your title tag go with the first option it is more search engine friendly, because the second title (Aperture | Aperture San Diego Downtown | Condos Lofts Real Estate) as the keyword aperture repeated consecutively which is not a good seo practice and you should make them look as natural as possible or else your triggering the spam filters of search engines which you do not want to happen right. Aperture San Diego Downtown - Aperture Condos & Lofts Real Estate or Aperture | Aperture San Diego Downtown | Condos Lofts Real Estate
For URL use the format with " - " instead of ' / ' As the search engines read the hyphen as space. For example if your url is like digipoint/services/content_writer_SEO the google will read it as Content_writer_SEO but if u use this format - digipoint/services/content-writer-SEO The goole will read it as content writer SEO and for the title of your webpage separate the two different words by the help of " | " like Condos real Estate | San Diego | Aperture Downtown Regards