Let suppose if I want to rank in for single keyword like "thanking". Then which will have a better impact to get faster page one rank if someone searching for exact word "thanking" based on the example below. Is it: example.com/thanking Or example.com/thanking-us The keyword itself won't be in the domain name. So which wuld be the better choice solely on this criteria?
both will be fine, as long as the keyword is in the url, besides that ranking will depend both on & off page seo. and i'd only choose thanking us unless i want to rank for thanking us.
hyper link which URL which you want to optimize with your target keyword. like you have "web development company" keyword, you want to optimize with inner page of website. use this keyword with that page with theme is web development.
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Link building is the answer. Focus on off page optimization strategies. You can also rewrite the meta tags of the pages you want to rank, make it keyword rich.
You can also use social bookmarking sites, and that way the search engine spiders pick up your bookmarks and follow these backlinks to your websites. This will also help in improving rankings.
Both ways are fair but it's better to go with thanking because if some other person is targeting thanking in URL then he might get better position in search engine result pages..
I would definitely go with "thanking". After all, Even if your page is named "thanking Us" you can always edit your url to just "thanking"
off page higher rank strategies:- Search engine submission are very use full to crawl the any page. Directory submission. Article submission, press release submission, social bookmarking.