: Stopwords in URL for longtailed keywords I have read some articles online that the correct SEO-practices suggest that you shouldn't use stop words in URLS. Does this also apply for URLs for

I have read some articles online that the correct SEO-practices suggest that you shouldn't use stop words in URLS. Does this also apply for URLs for pages that target long-tailed keywords that contain a stop word? I can't find a good source that talks about these specific URLs.

The list of stop words that are suggested to remove form URLs by multiple articles:

A, is, what, who, how, was, this, that, but, at, be, for, he, she, iam, I, in, its, your, with, all, any, did, do, had, has, here, his, and, etc...

So suppose I want to write a webpage that targets the long-tailed keyword:

Why do I like puppies more than cats

What would be the optimal URL in this case?

example.com/why-do-i-like-puppies-more-than-cats

or

example.com/like-puppies-more-than-cats

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@Nimeshi995

Simple answer. Use the more complete and conversational URL. Simple reason. It is user friendly and complete. The advice to avoid stop words appears in many forms. Let me be clear. It is all BULL. Stop words are and always were a necessary part of the web. Use them. However, at one point search engines did not index stop words because it added no value to the index. However, with semantic search, contextual search, and conversational queries, these words became important. This began with Ask Jeeves and Google and Bing have modified their operations to cover the nuances of linguistics to provide better results many years ago. Certainly, there never was any harm in using stop words at any point in search history and any advice to avoid them ridiculous. Why this advice continues to be shared is beyond me.

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