Learn SEO And Put Your Keywords In Your URL
OK I admit the title of this post is a little awkward sounding. This blog post is more of an expirement than anything. What I am wanting to know is what effect having my primary keywords, “learn” or “seo” in my URL more than once will have on my search engine ranking.
Currently x7SEO.com is on the second page of Google for the search term “learn SEO”. Of course SEO is part of my domain name and Google picks that up. I have my WP permalinks structure set to show the URL then the title of the post. I have used the following custom setting on the permalinks setting: /%postname%/ hence the somewhat odd name of this post.
The url for this post will be http://www.x7seo.com/learn-seo-and-put-your-keywords-in-your-url/ So SEO will now be in the indexed url 2 times and learn will be in the url 1 time. Now I need to wait and see if this particular page moves onto the front page of Google for the search term “learn SEO”. My initial though is that it will not have an effect. Why did I decide to do this? I noticed that most of the sites on that were above me for my particular search had the keywords standing alone somewhere in the URL whether at the root level or the individual page level. Since my url has an x7 right next to SEO i wondered if that caused a problem even though Google highlighted it as part of the found returns.
Time will tell. I am not a big fan of trying to play the system or attempting to manipulate or fool the system because that always comes back to haunt you. What this will be good for is know what words to choose and how to place them in future domain name purchases.
What are your thoughts on this??
