<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nInteresting question from Adeel from Manchester, UK \u201cDoes the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact: example.com\/keyword\/London is better than example.com\/London\/keyword?<\/p>\n\nTruthfully, I wouldn\u2019t really obsess about it at that level detail, it does help a little bit to have keywords in the URL but it doesn\u2019t help so much that you should go stuffing a ton of keywords into your URL. If there is a convenient way that is good for users, where you have four \u2013 five keywords, that might be worthwhile. But I wouldn\u2019t obsess about it to the level of how deep is the URL in the path or how am I combining it. For example, on my blog when I do a post I\u2019ll take the first 4-5 words or 2-3 words related to that post and I\u2019ll use that as the URL. But you don\u2019t need to make 7,8,10 or 20 words because that just looks like spamming users and people will probably not click through as much in the first place. So position is going to be very very second order kind of thing of keywords and URLs. I would not worry about that so much as having great content that people want to link to and people want to find out about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interesting question from Adeel from Manchester, UK \u201cDoes the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact: example.com\/keyword\/London is better than example.com\/London\/keyword? Truthfully, I wouldn\u2019t really obsess about it at that level detail, it does help a little bit to have keywords in the URL but it doesn\u2019t help so much that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Interesting question from Adeel from Manchester, UK \u201cDoes the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact: example.com\/keyword\/London is better than example.com\/London\/keyword?<\/p>\n
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Truthfully, I wouldn\u2019t really obsess about it at that level detail, it does help a little bit to have keywords in the URL but it doesn\u2019t help so much that you should go stuffing a ton of keywords into your URL. If there is a convenient way that is good for users, where you have four \u2013 five keywords, that might be worthwhile. But I wouldn\u2019t obsess about it to the level of how deep is the URL in the path or how am I combining it. For example, on my blog when I do a post I\u2019ll take the first 4-5 words or 2-3 words related to that post and I\u2019ll use that as the URL. But you don\u2019t need to make 7,8,10 or 20 words because that just looks like spamming users and people will probably not click through as much in the first place. So position is going to be very very second order kind of thing of keywords and URLs. I would not worry about that so much as having great content that people want to link to and people want to find out about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Interesting question from Adeel from Manchester, UK \u201cDoes the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact: example.com\/keyword\/London is better than example.com\/London\/keyword? Truthfully, I wouldn\u2019t really obsess about it at that level detail, it does help a little bit to have keywords in the URL but it doesn\u2019t help so much that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}