Keywords in the page url for best SEO

[aalcocer2003]

Hello all,

I am working in the keywors structure of a web and I have the following doubt:

1. If I want to target these keywords: great food madrid

and my website is: http://www.madridlive.com

I do not know if I should keep either:

OPTION 1: page url: www.madridlive.com/great-food-madrid

or

OPTION 2: page url www.madridlive.com/great-food

I do not know if the search engines "understands" madrid in "madridlive", therefore I can avoid the "madrid" keyword, dicarding option 1 and going for option 2. Additionally I avoid duplication of the madrid keyword  that can be seen as redundancy and also have a shorter page url.

Thank you very much and sorry for such a question but I am new in this SEO field...just the excellent SEOMOZ's SEO Guide for beginners!

Best regards,

Antonio

[aalcocer2003]

Hello Maurizio,

I have one doubt concernig SEo optimization as I am buiding the structure of my sebsite:

1. I have read that the post/page name is very importante (selecting the right keywords you are targeting and the lenght. And also the url path name. (Keywords+length)

My question would be concerning the keyword strategy to target both Page/post name and url name, I still have the doubt if (Imagine I am considering 5 keywords for SEO.):

1. OPTION 1 I should use as far as it is possible, the 5 keywords in the post/page title and the 5 same keywords in the url path,

OR

2. OPTION 2I should use these 5 keywords spread between title and url path? I mean maybe I use 3 keywords in the post/page name and 2 keywords in the url path, but as search engines gives more weight in SEO for post/page name, maybe I miss 2 of the keywords I used in the url path name.

I would prefer to use OPTION 2 as I can have:

• Shorter post/page name

• Shorter url path name.

• More caracters for targeting the keywords: 75 (from post/page name) + 115 (from url path name).

• I avoid repetition of keywords in both title and url path.

Thank you very much,

Antonio

[aalcocer2003]

Thank you very much, great replies and help for all the questions raised, Dana and Maurizio

[malecce]

I think that the crawler understand well the keyword madrid in the domain madridlive, for this you can avoid the repeat another time rhe same word.

www.madridlive.com/restaurant/great-food

for me is also better.

Ciao

Maurizio

[danatanseo]

Hi Antonio,

Great question and great example. Yes, Google can see "amdridlive" as "Madrid live." Consequently, I think your URL in option 2 is the way to go for all of the additional reasons you suggest: shorter URL, avoids repeating the word Madrid. So far you have really good instincts. Hope that helps!

Dana