Should I include keywords in my page links?

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January 16, 2012, 11:46 pm

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Should I include keywords in my page links?

Just started working on a static html site and was wondering if I should include my keywords as part of the page link url?

For instance, if i had a game site, my page title might say: my-free-games.html.

Would that help me rank higher in Google?

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idealmike

Having your keywords in the URL (slug) can help people know what that page is about just from the URL. So having keyword friendly URLs really is friendly for people. But excessive keyword usage in your URL is another matter. Sometimes, you might have a really long title. But would you want or do you even need to use all of the words that are in your title in your URL at all? Does that make it any more or less keyword and people friendly? If all the words are different and you've removed any stop words from it then that can be okay as there may only be one word in it that the searcher is looking for. But using the same keywords in the URL too much is considered excessive and bad usability.

So if you have a title that is something long like "How to Create a Really Long Title But Make it Keyword Friendly for People and Search Engines" you wouldn't want the url to look like "how-to-create-a-really-long-title-but-make-it-keyword-friendly-for-people-and-search-engines" but you might want it to be shorter so it makes it easier to remember and just better looking over something like "create-really-long-title-make-keyword-friendly" now that would be much better in my opinion but that's just me and what I'd do!