Page URL Issue

[shandaman]

Hey Friend, I am having sort of a problem.

I currently have a subpage with the url of:

/musclecars/

I also have a subpage at

/muscle-cars/muscle-car-restoration.html

Obviously my main url is not listed here. My problem is I am trying to rank for the term Muscle Cars but the first URL does not have the keywords seperated so I rank no where. If I type MuscleCars into google I rank though (but nobody types the keyword in like that).

So my question is can I create muscle-cars.mydomainname.com and rank well with that? Or is it better to just use mydomainname.com/muscle-cars/ even though that second term I am ranking for already has that in its url?

[AdamThompson]

mydomainname.com/muscle-cars/ and mydomainname.com/muscle-cars/muscle-car-restoration.html are two completely separate urls. I wouldn't worry about that.

[shandaman]

Hey Adam, Thanks for your response.

Well traditionally that is my thinking as well however already having the other term using that plus the .html page in that folder I just didnt want any duplicate url problems?

[AdamThompson]

Shannon,

A couple thoughts:

1. The url of your page is one of the less important ranking factors (don't ignore it, but that may not be the main reason you aren't ranking for your keyword)
2. I would use mydomainname.com/muscle-cars/ not a subdomain

Hope these help.

~Adam