Are the prepositions and separate letters in URL bad for website optimization?

[adrecom]

Is it ok for website optimization to use prepositions and separate letters in URL ?

Examples: -i-series ; -salad-with-avocado etc.

[HiveDigitalInc]

Thanks Ipegiro...  My point exactly on saying "unless they are creating value within the url"...  as obviously "bunny-on-stool" has a completely different meaning than "bunny-stool"..

Cheers

-Jake

[Luis-Pereira]

Reducing the url lenght will be a best pratice, however my adivice is to alwways put yourself as a user, the dumbest user you could be.

Which one is the best for your users    e.g.  bunny-on-stool  or bunny-stool

Google will ignore hyfens and stopwords (the, a, on, ....)

[HiveDigitalInc]

Typically you want to minimize url length by removing stop words, prepositions, etc. unless they are creating value within the URL.      e.g.  bunny-on-stool  vs. bunny-stool

I wouldn't go as far as to say it is bad for SEO, but there are some schools of thought that minimizing the number of words in a URL "concentrates" relevance around those terms remaining.   That being said, I'm confident Google already ignores common stop words and phrases, and this isn't something I would go about changing in an existing URL structure.

You'll notice some sites, such as wordpress, by default remove the prepositions, etc. from the URLs.

[GlobeRunner]

Yes, it's perfectly fine. It used to be that you actually needed to use hyphens to separate words in the URL (so search engines could understand) but now you don't need to do that.

So, it is OK to use hyphens in URLs.