: Is it a good idea to strip common words from url's I've got an MVC app that generates url "slugs" on the fly. I'm wondering (with regards to SEO) if it's good practice to stip common words

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I've got an MVC app that generates url "slugs" on the fly. I'm wondering (with regards to SEO) if it's good practice to stip common words from the slug.

IE:

Page Title: This is a cool title with lots of content

Page Slug: /this-is-a-cool-title-with-lots-of-content
Option B: /this-cool-title-with-lots-content

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@Kristi941

It probably won't hurt anything, but don't expect it to be particularly beneficial, either.

To John Conde's answer: The question is about the slug that ends up in the URL. I can't imagine any search engine is going to consider that above the actual in-page content, which is not being modified here. (My rep's currently too low to comment directly.)

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@Kristi941

If a user does a search for an exact string (using quotes) then stripping those words will have a negative effect on your rankings. Wordpress leaves them in and it seems to work for the countless number of blogs that use it so I'd say leave them in.

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: Is it a good idea to strip common words from url's I've got an MVC app that generates url "slugs" on the fly. I'm wondering (with regards to SEO) if it's good practice to stip common words

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