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[Halfdeck]

buymyporn.com/hornyblondes/
buymyporn.com/hotsexyblondes/
buymyporn.com/blondesluts/

If you're optimizing foldernames using keywords, use dashes, period or + between words. Google doesn't parse words in URLS. For example,

buymyporn.com/horny-blondes/
buymyporn.com/hot-sexy-blondes/
buymyporn.com/blonde-sluts/

buymyporn.com/hotsexyblondes/ will only get a boost when someone runs a search for "hotsexyblondes." Same deal with underscores.

buymyporn.com/horny_blondes/ is only optimized for "horny_blondes"

I would keep urls all in lowercase.

[MeatPounder]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

Google doesn't parse words in URLS.



buymyporn.com/hotsexyblondes/ will only get a boost when someone runs a search for "hotsexyblondes." Same deal with underscores.

I have heard that over and over
but then I look at the google search results and see the keywords run together in the urls boldedsuch as your example hot sexy blondes (no quotes)
http://www.google.com/search?q=hot+s...&start=10&sa=N
returns these examples with the keywords bolded by google
www.sex-and-porn.com/hotblondes.php
www.blackgirls.ws/sexyblondes.html
www.pheaton.com/hotbabes.htm

[Halfdeck]

Meatpounder, highlighting doesn't mean parsing.

You can read John Scott's take on it, or run a few searches on pages of your own domain where keywords only appear in your URL and nowhere else on the page.

Say you have a page named /blow-jobs/freakygothicbiatchessex.html. You never mention the word "freaky" or "sex" on the page text or have any links pointing to the page with those words in their anchor text. Now, run these searches: "site:domain.com/blow-jobs/ freaky" and ""site:domain.com/blow-jobs/ sex". Assuming that's the only page you have under /blow-jobs/, Google will return 0 results in both cases.

Here's Vanessa Fox's take on underscores, and you can see the same reasoning behind spaces and why Google doesn't parse them:

And speaking of putting a dash in URLs, hyphens are often better than underscores. african-elephants.html is seen as two words: “African” and “elephants”. african_elephants is seen as one word: african_elephant. It’s doubtful many people will be searching for that.

Notice we also see keywords separated by underscores highlighted in Google SERPs.

[kitty_kate]

Returning to the initial question in this thread, I've done some reasearching myself, surfing some of the biggest Link Lists around. I found that a lot of submitters are placing index.html pages in subfolders, while the main page + galleries are one level up. This way, every LL gets its recip on index.html and everybody's happy.

I guess I'm gonna do the same.

[nomercy]

Thanks for that explanation Halfdeck. I was under the same impression as MeatPounder. I took a look and saw the same results (keywords run together, yet highlighted). I had always assumed that Google took those words in to account individually or at least parsed them in some fashion. Good to know that they don't if they are run together or are separated by an underscore or other non-demarcation character.

Is that true of most other majors like MSN and Yahoo?