SEO friendly URLS

[seorocks]

Hi All,

Do you think the following url type would get indexed and rank high in Google/yahoo/msn?

www.domain.com/events.php?itemid=4


or

would you recommend a url structure of:

www.domain.com/event

or

www.domain.com/event.php



Thanks,

SEOrocks

[Dubbya]

Dynamic vs. Static URL's.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs

[JeyrameXRu]

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[Dubbya]

JeyrameXRu, don't try to hijack this thread for your own personal gain.

If you want people to visit your site, come out and say so in your own thread.

[WebStar Multimedia]

Either way, you just dont want dynamic urls with question marks in there. A clean URL is more keyword rich and also more SEO freindly according to the major search engines.

[Dubbya]

Originally Posted by WebStar Multimedia

Either way, you just dont want dynamic urls with question marks in there. A clean URL is more keyword rich and also more SEO freindly according to the major search engines.

WebStar, your statement is no longer accurate.

Read the article at Google Webmaster Central Blog
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs

Which can Googlebot read better, static or dynamic URLs?
We've come across many webmasters who, like our friend, believed that static or static-looking URLs were an advantage for indexing and ranking their sites. This is based on the presumption that search engines have issues with crawling and analyzing URLs that include session IDs or source trackers. However, as a matter of fact, we at Google have made some progress in both areas. While static URLs might have a slight advantage in terms of clickthrough rates because users can easily read the urls, the decision to use database-driven websites does not imply a significant disadvantage in terms of indexing and ranking. Providing search engines with dynamic URLs should be favored over hiding parameters to make them look static.

Myth: "Dynamic URLs are okay if you use fewer than three parameters."
Fact: There is no limit on the number of parameters, but a good rule of thumb would be to keep your URLs short (this applies to all URLs, whether static or dynamic). You may be able to remove some parameters which aren't essential for Googlebot and offer your users a nice looking dynamic URL. If you are not able to figure out which parameters to remove, we'd advise you to serve us all the parameters in your dynamic URL and our system will figure out which ones do not matter. Hiding your parameters keeps us from analyzing your URLs properly and we won't be able to recognize the parameters as such, which could cause a loss of valuable information.

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[Jasoncreja]

http://www.domain.com/event.php this is the answer because for the 1st link google will consider you static website
for 2nd it will consider as directory so the 3rd option is right answer.

[Mel]

sigh* if you want SEO friendly URLs then you want to have keywords in the URLs and dynamic URLs seldom use keywords.

If you want to be ranked for say new cars San Francisco you should find ways to use that term within the URL perhaps something like

http://www.newcars.com/san-francisco.htm

or http://www.mysalesite.com/new cars/san-francisco.htm

[seosean]

Mel is right, you need to have those keywords in the URL. So although Google will crawl and index either a dynamic or static URL you still should make it a URL with keywords if at all possible even though Google does suggest that you leave dynamic URLs alone.