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What Do You Mean By SEO – Friendly URL?

A Poor URL structure is a numerous SEO issue, one that can reduce rankings, keep pages out of the search engine indexes, also effect Google traffic and ranking authority from other pages or even the entire websites.In this blog, we are going to discuss on how a perfect SEO-friendly and user-friendly URL should be structured.

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What Do You Mean By SEO – Friendly URL?

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  1. What Do You Mean By SEO – Friendly URL? Before we go to deep into, first it’s important to know “What is URL?” After that it’s easy to define what a SEO Friendly URL is. What is a URL? URL is basically the abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator. It is a human- readable text that was designed to replace the numbers (IP addresses) that computers use to communicate with servers. They also identify the file structure on the given website. SEO Friendly URL SEO Friendly URLs contain keywords that explain the article, and they’re easy to read by both humans and search engines. They also improve your chances

  2. to rank higher in search engines.SEO friendly URL differs as per the type of website. A Poor URL structure is a numerous SEO issue, one that can reduce rankings, keep pages out of the search engine indexes, also effect Google traffic and ranking authority from other pages or even the entire websites. In this blog, we are going to discuss on how a perfect SEO-friendly and user- friendly URL should be structured. Don’t Worry About Stop Words Avoid use of stop words like ‘a’, ‘of’, ‘the’ etc in URL. In 99% of the cases, these words add nothing of value to your URL structure & they can often make a URL unreasonably longer. Make URL Short and Simple The lengthy URL is not the primarily factor that is focused by Google. But it does not mean that shorter URLs are not considered or not preferable; keep in mind to use a logical structure in your URLs. We do recommend keeping your URLs as short as possible. Avoid Use of Underscore Don’t use underscores, as these connect the words and make them into one. Dashes are preferred. Try to Place Keywords in URL If you wants to optimize a blog post for a certain keyword, you should include that main keyword in its URL. Having your main keyword in the URL of the

  3. blog post has various benefits, but including the keyword it doesn’t seem unnatural or forced stuffed there. Make Your URLs More Searchable and Readable A searchable and readable URL is not only considering by Google, it also valued for reader too. Keep the reader in mind when setting up your URL structure. A more readable URL structure can significantly increases the engagement rate it gets from search-engine users. Practice to Match the URL to Title It is considered more beneficial if Title and URL are delivered same information about blog post for both readers and search engine. As you can see, there are no magic rules here. Most of the ground tips are focused on creating the most user-friendly and readable URL for your web pages or blog post. Apart from that, including the main keyword and then matching it with the title and content of the post are other important factors that you must focus on. SEO Service Toronto | iMediaDesign is a reputed IT service agency , that offers cost effective digital marketing, custom app development and web development service in Toronto.

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