how long can a URL be?

[Josea]

How long can a URL be and how does that effect SEO?

For example;

www .mysite.com/catagory-1/sub-catagory-1/content-page.html

Is there a maximum for the whole URL?
How about a max lenght for each subdirectory?
Or for the name of content page?
For SEO how deep can subdirectories go?

[phuckbunny]

That's insane. Why would you want to have a url that long? Or are you thinking that having it stuffed with SE terms would help as in if you have

teensite.teen.com/teenporn/teensex/teenblowjob/teenpussy/etc etc ad infinitum

would increase your SE hits? I can't imagine how it would. I can imagine hurting you more than helping you but that's just my intuition.

[Josea]

Just curious about the limit. Catagories will be simple keyword. Subcategorie a keyword that gets more specific. And content page could be a phrase that discribes content.

pornsite.com/teens/cheerleader/redhead/see-hottie-lisa-ride-jocks-hard-cock.html



Like I said, just curious but no telling when such info would be needed. Or what experience webmasters have to say about it.

[rockhard8]

Originally posted by Josea
Just curious about the limit. Catagories will be simple keyword. Subcategorie a keyword that gets more specific. And content page could be a phrase that discribes content.

pornsite.com/teens/cheerleader/redhead/see-hottie-lisa-ride-jocks-hard-cock.html



Like I said, just curious but no telling when such info would be needed. Or what experience webmasters have to say about it.

last I knew about SE urls, they allow 1028 characters. That's a lot of breathing room to get your content across. If you are a white hat kinda guy and need the breathing room, then keep it under 1024 characters at least. But as for allowances go, 1024 characters in a URL, I could be wrong, but that's where you're at. Might be 1048, investigative research.

[phuckbunny]

Wouldn't a ridiculously long url laden with search term keywords be black hat that wouldn't last too long? Curious.

[Josea]

Thank you Rockhard and welcome to Cosy.

1024 characters is probably more than enough. I seem to recall reading that a domain name had a limit of some thing like 63 characters but that was in an old book and I don't remember any thing about the total URL. Once again, thank you.

[porn punk]

I always try to think short, mostly cause of blogging.

Have you ever seen some of those insanely long url's coming off of wordpress posts?

[Josea]

Originally posted by porn punk
I always try to think short, mostly cause of blogging.

Have you ever seen some of those insanely long url's coming off of wordpress posts?

Those insanely long URLs is what got me to wonder about the limit and the possible SEO value.

I too have always tried to make my URLs short. I was just curious about the limit and the possibilities.

[porn punk]

Originally posted by Josea
Those insanely long URLs is what got me to wonder about the limit and the possible SEO value.

I too have always tried to make my URLs short. I was just curious about the limit and the possibilities.

In my personal opinion, (also in theory I believe) keywords in the url do help seo. That's assuming they are in your posts also, but I guess you're not supposed to over stuff your posts with them, but I do if I'm splogging though I'm trying to cut back on that.

Just remember you can't target every signal keyword in the market or even in a niche. That would make it the opposite of targeting.

[housekeeper]

Look at some of the affiliate links we use with promoting FHG's and such, some of them are quite long. I do try to keep my own links on the short side, with keyword just before the syntax.

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Josea
I seem to recall reading that a domain name had a limit of some thing like 63 characters but that was in an old book and I don't remember any thing about the total URL. Once again, thank you.

No one would ever want to create a domain as long as the limit I'm sure. But, the url can be very long. Just look at some of the urls that are created on Amazon or Google pages.

[Josea]

I meant that the domain name is part of the URL. When shopping for domain name I try to keep them as short as possible and with keywords if I can.

I was just wondering what the limit was for the total URL (counting the domain name and all the sub directories plus the file name). From I learned in this tread, the limit is too big for me to worry about since I'll likely never generate a URL that would reach the limit.

[Josea]

Originally posted by porn punk
In my personal opinion, (also in theory I believe) keywords in the url do help seo. That's assuming they are in your posts also, but I guess you're not supposed to over stuff your posts with them, but I do if I'm splogging though I'm trying to cut back on that.

Just remember you can't target every signal keyword in the market or even in a niche. That would make it the opposite of targeting.

Oh, I agree.

I was thinking more like the imaginary example I gave;

pornsite.com/teens/cheerleader/redhead/see-hottie-lisa-ride-jocks-hard-cock.html

The page will have gallery or blog text about a teen hottie cheerleader named Lisa who is a redhead and likes to ride the hard cock of some jock. The blog entery or gallery sales pitch will have all the keywords in the URL but not really in one sentence.

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Josea
pornsite.com/teens/cheerleader/redhead/see-hottie-lisa-ride-jocks-hard-cock.html

A URL like this will do asbolutely nothing for your SEO chances.

The most important thing to remember about SEO is that keyword density is king. In your example these are the keywords:

teens cheerleader redhead hottie lisa jocks hard cock

None of those keywords are related and if you SEO the page to focus on the keywords "teen cheerleader" that URL will kill it.

If you had a page SEO'd for "teen cheerleader" (example) the best possible url you could have would be simply the domain "teencheerleader.com". Since that probably isn't possible, the next best option would be "yourdomain.com/teen-cheerleader" and put the index file in a folder called "teen-cheerleader" so you could leave the .html off the end.

[porn punk]

Originally posted by Hammer
A URL like this will do asbolutely nothing for your SEO chances.

The most important thing to remember about SEO is that keyword density is king. In your example these are the keywords:

teens cheerleader redhead hottie lisa jocks hard cock

None of those keywords are related and if you SEO the page to focus on the keywords "teen cheerleader" that URL will kill it.

If you had a page SEO'd for "teen cheerleader" (example) the best possible url you could have would be simply the domain "teencheerleader.com". Since that probably isn't possible, the next best option would be "yourdomain.com/teen-cheerleader" and put the index file in a folder called "teen-cheerleader" so you could leave the .html off the end.

Does the html on the end have a negative effect?

Also what about any repitition of the term? I'm thinking of a post were teen-cheerleader might be in the category and also in the post title? Or does this maybe hurt the seo?

Thanks in advance, Hammer

[Josea]

Originally posted by Hammer
...

None of those keywords are related and if you SEO the page to focus on the keywords "teen cheerleader" that URL will kill it.

Why would it kill it?

Originally posted by Hammer
...

If you had a page SEO'd for "teen cheerleader" (example) the best possible url you could have would be simply the domain "teencheerleader.com". Since that probably isn't possible, the next best option would be "yourdomain.com/teen-cheerleader" and put the index file in a folder called "teen-cheerleader" so you could leave the .html off the end.

This I understand.


What about keywords used in subdirectories names? Good or bad?

Also how deep should sub-directories go? I there a limit as far as SEO is concern?


Thanks for your feedback.

[sunfunbill]

Time for my 2 cents! I name my folders and so on with the key words I am trying to reach, as well as the picture name and of course the permalink.

So just for a picture I can have:
lesbiansexdotcom/lesbian/lesbian-sex-1.jpg

For the url you can have:
lesbiansexdotcom/lesbiansex/blond lesbians in hot lesbiansex/
Alt=lesbian sex with two lesbians

So all the above is related, and that's just the picture and url, then you still have all the key word text.

You want to keep the key word as one or two max, otherwise you dilute it too much.

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Josea
Why would it kill it?

Because all of the extra keywords he's sticking in the url that have nothing to do with the main keyword just water down the effectiveness of the primary keywords.

[Hammer]

Originally posted by porn punk
Does the html on the end have a negative effect?

Also what about any repitition of the term? I'm thinking of a post were teen-cheerleader might be in the category and also in the post title? Or does this maybe hurt the seo?

The .html on the ends just adds 5 more unnecessary letters that don't support the important keywords.

You want to repeat the keywords in the url, in the title tag, in the header, in the text, in the alt tags.

[porn punk]

Originally posted by Hammer
The .html on the ends just adds 5 more unnecessary letters that don't support the important keywords.

You want to repeat the keywords in the url, in the title tag, in the header, in the text, in the alt tags.

Thanks, Hammer.

You can over do it though, correct? Just like in the post? Isn't there something about a certain density percentage or google starts to suspect spam?

I don't know; I might be off on this