Rand Fishkin on URL Length & Search Ranking

by neal on October 27, 2009


Rand Fishkin, with SEOMoz, discusses the correlation between the length of a site’s URL and search engine rankings. Rand emphasizes that just because a site ranks better with shorter URLs, doesn’t mean that short URLs contribute to your search engine visibility.

Lick your ball point pen or open Google Sidewiki and take notes. You’re brain will be operating on quad core neurons once your done.

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Remi Turcotte October 28, 2009 at 6:28 pm

gotta love your energy !!! nice

Affiliate Manager November 1, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Have you made any research regarding the sequence of the keywords from left to right? Is the first keyword in the URL more relevant than the last keyword? Also is the “www” considered a keyword?

homebreware November 30, 2009 at 9:24 am

Hi, Just supposed I’d let you know your website is displaying funny in my K-melleon browser. Looks good from what I can see though.

neal December 1, 2009 at 1:40 am

hey, homebreware; thnx for letting me know, and for viewing; i’ll get it checked out;

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