Search engines use incredibly complex algorithms to calculate what pages should be returned when you search for a given term. The exact algorithms are closing guarded secrets, but search engine optimisation experts have been able to infer some basics rules to follow.
One of these is that having a url that contains some of your chosen keywords can help provide a marginal, but useful boost to a page’s relevance. Let’s assume we are trying to optimise for “vintage rare coganc”. We can gain some advantage by using those terms in the querystring, the path or the TLD.
- http://www.my-domain.blah/index.php?q=vintage&20cognac
- http://www.my-domain.blah/vintage-cognac
- http://www.my-vintage-cognac.blah/
Any sensible Content Management System or e-Commerce platform should be able to support such “pretty” or “search engine friendly” urls – which can help make those marginal gains that push you from the second page of results onto the first.
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