It's from 2010, not exactly old.
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It's from 2010, not exactly old.
Who said anything about doing that?
There's more to SEO that just URL structure. It is one small or potentially vital component.
Robbo
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No. It is one small component to help users read where a link leads.
I'll let Kier do the arguing for me.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/about-seo.2168/page-2#post-3293
I'll let Kier do the arguing for me.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/about-seo.2168/page-2#post-3293
Robbo
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What the hell are you talking about then? If the URL goes to its location then that is all it has to do, nothing else from that URL will help with SEO.
Carlos
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Um. No. It doesn't work that way, google needs to READ your on-page links before deciding that "Okay, this is a standard link structure for this site. Let's index." Your link structure has nothing to do with how google reads your site, your on-page information LEADS google to read your entire site's URL/link structure.
Let me put it this way: There is no tag cloud on MW3Blog, yet the tags are indexed regardless. But how has it been indexed? Well, your posts leads google there.
I think you're downplaying URL structure. And I pretty much disagree with it. I have "friendly" URL structure on both MW3Blog, and CODForums, and I was able to capture the other keywords than just mw3 blog, and cod forums respectively.
Robbo
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Ummm... I know it doesn't, it is what I have been saying the whole time. URL structure just has to go to the page you need it to go to, it needs to render something. Other than that it does nothing for SEO, if you have a title in the link or not.
Sigh this is pointless.
Carlos
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Indeed. I agree.
It works a whole lot better for those niche-traffic websites, not just gaming. You have to think about how to target your target niche in order for the "friendly" URL structure to work.
I think that you don't like learning from others. It feels like you're forcing ideas onto people.
And you're also confusing a lot of people at this point. At first, I thought we were talking about URL's.
URL =/= Domain name
URL structure means anything after the domain name.
DomainURLhere.com/URL-structure-here
Subdirectory means file name, or the in-between the domain name and the link structure:
DomainURLhere.com/subdirectory/URL-structure-here
Robbo
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No. What I am saying is true. The structure of a URL will not have an impact on your search page ranking. It is simply used by the crawler to go to the location it points to, if it is allowed to. It gets its data from the HTML, like the title tag, description tag, h1, h2, h3, micro data or whatever it is called, HTML5 data attributes. If a search engine sees this URL as http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-seo.24395/page-2 it will rank EXACTLY the same if it was http://xenforo.com/community/t/24395/2.
Carlos
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Okay, fine. You win.
*Gives trophy* Here, you win.
You don't realize that you're talking to a person who has been testing two different kinds of URL structures.
My multiplatform gaming blog isn't catching the gaming market, thanks to the "short url" structure. So, I changed it to friendly url, now it's going to take some time to climb the ranks.
*Gives trophy* Here, you win.
You don't realize that you're talking to a person who has been testing two different kinds of URL structures.
My multiplatform gaming blog isn't catching the gaming market, thanks to the "short url" structure. So, I changed it to friendly url, now it's going to take some time to climb the ranks.
avi
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Buddy can give me any link about it ? Like I posted Google's Documentation...
I will also post in Google Webmaster Forums, lets see what they also say
Carlos
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Sure, Mr. SEO expert.
I almost tried calling myself the SEO expert, but after reading about so called "SEO experts" I don't need it. *laughs and snickers*
avi
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Is that was for me, no I am not kidding. I am n00b in SEO & learning new things. I stumbled upon Google's Beginner PDF, so asked my doubt.
Robbo
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Err I think "SEO experts" is a joke and most the time you pay for some company who knows barely anything and will just fill out your meta data. What I meant is I work on websites for a living, develop them from the ground up...
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