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T-Kai

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« on: May 24, 2004, 08:52:00 pm »
I would like to know what URL structure would work the best for the search engines.

http://www.domain.com/TITLE1-TITLE2.php
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http://www.domain.com/TITLE1/TITLE2.php
or
http://www.domain.com/TITLE1\\TITLE2.php
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http://www.domain.com/TITLE1.TITLE2.php

The thing is these are all unsupported characters that are considered as space (correct me if I am wrong). That`s all good, but someone once mentioned that \"/\" gives lower priority to the search engine because it is considered as subfolder.

How is with \\, |, %, # and other such characters. Which should be the best to go?

I know that \"-\" would probably work the best, but would like to know if other unsupported characters would work as well.

Thanks,
Luka
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thebassman

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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2004, 09:52:00 pm »
capital letters are bad...
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T-Kai

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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2004, 09:57:00 pm »
There would be no capital letters, at least not in a form such as TITLE1, TITLE2. In reality it would be Title1,Title2. I could also convert that to lower case. Would that help to improve my ranking?

If anyone is able to answer on my original questions please do.
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thebassman

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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2004, 09:58:00 pm »
yeah, use everything lowercase... and, like you said, the \"-\" is probably the best way to go...
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JohnScott

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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2004, 04:58:00 pm »
Just a theory, but I figure every little bit helps.
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thebassman

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« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2004, 05:06:00 pm »
Exactly, exactly, exactly... that\'s why you\'re the dirty seo man that you are
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Sesshoumaru-Sama

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« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2004, 10:07:00 pm »
thebassman wrote:yeah, use everything lowercase... and, like you said, the \"-\" is probably the best way to go...

Yep, yep, yep, right on bassman.
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RonHollingsworth

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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2004, 11:04:00 pm »
I would probably just go with the first one.
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« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2004, 04:01:00 am »
RonHollingsworth wrote:I would probably just go with the first one.

Me too, just got two pages #1 doing excactly that, Made them, 3 weeks later #1!  

(\"marijuana religion\" and \"cannabis religion\")
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T-Kai

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« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2004, 02:36:00 pm »
Thanks for the replies

\"-\" is then the way to go.

Luka
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RonHollingsworth

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« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2004, 03:22:00 pm »
yes use dashes
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scisoft

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« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2004, 01:35:00 am »
Are first level subfolders really a problem? Many people use them for keywords (me too).
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awall19

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« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2004, 01:37:00 am »
I never think subfolders are a problem. they really help organize content.

the only time folders would hurt you is if you made your stuff so long that people had a hard time copying your url without it breaking multiple lines.

shorter is better for ease of remembering, but folders are good in my eyes.
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JohnScott

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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2004, 03:41:00 pm »
I try to keep my pages as close to root as possible. When Google used to show ghost PR on pages, it dropped the PR one count for each \"/\", so it indicated to me that they consider pages closer to the root more important.
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thebassman

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« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2004, 04:33:00 pm »
Interesting point, John... it might be worth leaving a lot of things in the root folder, then... thanks.
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