Should You Use Targeted Keywords In URLs?

Thought this might come in handy for some of you new guys, hell, some of you old guys might learn something too. (seems like this newsletter is pretty cool after all.)

Should You Use Targeted Keywords In URLs?
Written By :Olivier Duffez, 2004-12-09
http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/...rdsinURLs.html

As you know, search engine algorithms look at over 100 criteria. If you read forums about Search Engine Optimization, you will see that some SEOs recommend to use keywords in URLs and others claim it is useless.

The problem is that no one has made a real test (or they have not published it). We have decided to run some tests in order to make sure that words in URLs are criteria for search engines algorithms.

See now while that is a good test of whether or not keywords in the url will assist webmasters, it is not infallible.

We have no idea how they linked to the newly created pages and, we also have no idea whether using keywords in the 'domain' offers any benefit to webmasters.

Non the less interesting reading for sure, thanks for sharing the link Andy :)

Regards,

Lee