Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Jamie Reimer on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 11/18/2013).

Do you include keyword phrase in the URL/title if you want to rank for them?

Stop words. 

Tell me about them. If a keyword phrase you want to rank for contains them, do you include them in the URL/title?

Does the hummingbird update disregard this completely?
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  • Jamie Reimer: Stop words. ;

    Tell me about them. If a keyword phrase you want to rank for contains them, do you include them in the URL/title?

    Does the hummingbird update disregard this completely?
  • Moeez Bin Hamid: Important Question, I would like to know the answer to this question as well!
    I heard a guy telling me he had a stop word in a keyword phrase and his ranking for the word dropped and he is not in first 50 now.
  • Moeez Bin Hamid: Ok I did some research on stop words and I suggest not to use stop words in the URL.
    And just to share what I learned yesterday. You use "-" for a space in the url and _ for no space in between the words.
    I am Moeez = I-am-Moeez
    I am MoeezLodhi = I-am-Moeez_Lodhi

    Cheers!
  • Matt Staton: Use a mixture of both.
  • Emmanuel Flossie: Your title should reflect your page file or folder name. In a sense that it has a relationship. Do not copy the exact same sentence over and over again. Variation is key.
  • Emmanuel Flossie: Here is an article i wrote that helps you with the research of titles. ;http://www.smileywar.com/seo-title-research/
  • David Sorkin: Thanks for sharing +Emmanuel Flossie. Nicely written and informative.

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