77 Best SEO Practices and Rules - URL Edition

Seo practices for url that affect your page rank and search accessible with Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask and other search engines.

The SEO legend contains best, good, okay, and neutral factors on one side and bad, worst, and awful on the other. The numbers represent the affect the includes rules will have on your page rank.

For a complete list that contains 77 SEO rules please read the SEO Bible.

• 16 - Keywords
• 18 - Links
• 4 - Meta tags
• 13 - Content
• 7 - Appearance
• 19 - URL

Uniform Resource Locator (URL), formerly known as Universal Resource Locator, is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings:

In popular usage and many technical documents, it is a synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); Strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable documents was the core idea of the World Wide Web. In the early times, these identifiers were variously called "document names", "Web addresses" and "Uniform Resource Locators". These names were misleading, however, because not all identifiers were locators, and even for those that were, this was not their defining characteristic. Nevertheless, by the time the RFC 1630 formally defined the term "URI" as a generic term best suited to the concept, the term "URL" had gained widespread popularity, which has continued to this day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_address

• Put keywords in the url of files downloads from your site
• Fix 404 errors quickly

• Submit a sitemap to Google
• Site size (not to be confused with page size) should be large
• Domain age
• One theme throughout site

• Put imporant file in your root directory (i.e. yoursite.com/filename)
• Use of sub-domain (pagename.yoursite.com)
• ".com" is better than ".ws" etc.
• Hyphens are okay in the web address

• 6-7 word URL (max)
• IP address
• Adsense will not increase your page rank
• Adword will not increase your page rank

• Hosting downtime
• Spiders prefer static not dynamic

• Don't use session id's
• Don't ban robots.txt

• Don't use 301/302 redirect