Effect of using keywords in URLs with Google
Many years ago I hardly knew what a search engine friendly URL was, but when I stumbled upon the concept and started moving away from dynamic URLs to friendly, keyword rich URLs I noticed a direct and immediate positive impact on how much I was crawled and how well I was ranked in Google. Is that still the case? I still use friendly URLs whenever I can, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of agreement on the subject.
I’m trying to get everyone’s opinion over at eLanceTalk with my Impact of keywords in URLs on Google performance post. It would be great to see some more data on the direct impact. So far the most recent and applicable studies made publicly available are lackluster at best.
