Should I include keywords in my page links?

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January 16, 2012, 11:46 pm

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Just started working on a static html site and was wondering if I should include my keywords as part of the page link url?

For instance, if i had a game site, my page title might say: my-free-games.html.

Would that help me rank higher in Google?

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Cristian

Yes definitely, having the main keywords in the link is crucial when it comes to better ranking. Just make sure you also have a related Title, description and keywords for that page. As well as relevant content.

15 years ago

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karoshio

No, these will not help you whatsoever. Unless I'm wrong and forgetting something then file names will not affect anything. The only time that helps is when it's like /words_here/ but if that was /words_here.php then you get nothing from it.

15 years ago

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seoconsul

Hi,
We agree with the advice given by user "Rancid", however, Google frowns on excessive usage
ex.www.domainname.com/seo/localseo/serp

The better ones would be
www.domainname.com/seo/
www.domainname.com/localseo

sometime up to second level is ok.
www.domainname.com/seo/localseo/

14 years ago

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Corzhens

This is new to me because my understanding of keywords is that it is included in the tagging when you upload the content to a new web page. If the name of the page includes the keyword I don’t think it should have an advantage with the search engines because the keyword is part of the name and it has no other meaning. But with the page title I guess it has an influence with the search engines.

8 years ago

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