: Do extra words in url affect SEO? Often for technical reasons we end up with some extra words in a url that we would not want to optimize for as they would have no bearing on the content.
Often for technical reasons we end up with some extra words in a url that we would not want to optimize for as they would have no bearing on the content.
Examples would be:
sportssite.com/content/sports-article
movieportal.com/node/movie-review
electronicsforum.com/blog/top-10-cameras
webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/34046/do-extra-words-in-url-affect-seo
Do these have any affect on ranking in any of the major search engines? Would it behoove us to strip the extra words?
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After all, the URL is not very important to the spiders, it might be important to the eyes of visitors though.
What is important is defining the pages correctly using tags, such as title, description, canonical url, open graph, microdata... these are what spiders see.
The URLs already look good, all of these have the most important page part - the title - in it. If you have to get some extra words, make sure that they relate to your content (e.g. "questions") instead of showing a generic or technical term (e.g. "content" or "node"). If you use extra words related to your site, this might even be a benefit instead of a penalty.
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