I think most would agree that a keyword friendly domain can be a major help for SEO in various ways. Domains and URL paths are a bit of a different consideration.<\/p>\n

The URL itself is less of a signal these days, and so thinking too much about where in the URL keywords appear is probably too finicky.<\/p>\n

However, as with any question that affects URLs, you need to make sure your URLs serve their major purpose as a user route into your site. If you have meaningful but short URLs, that should help SEO.<\/p>\n

Generally, I would read from right to left in a URL – going from most specific information to least specific. So, www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gRzMhlFZz9I is not great. www.youtube.com\/entertainment\/very-funny would tell a user (and a search engine) that you had something very funny, filed under entertainment, in a site named youtube.<\/p>\n

A quick test that can help you evaluate the search engine impact of keywords in URLs is to compare results for a keyword to results for the same search without the keyword in the URL. But I would say instead of concentrating on these stuff if you can do what is best for your users I am sure you will do fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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