The number of URL length allowable in views of SEO has been discussed seriously in forums and blog. Some suggested that maximum length of URL of targetted pages URL’s should be under 65 characters long. All depends on how the receiving SE deals with long URL. Some won’t do past 128 characters and some will do. “One size fits all” is getting out of date.

Put keywords in URL, e.g.http://www.smallpile.com/url-in-seo-practice.html, where “SEO pratice” is the keyword phrase you attempt to rank well for. But if you don’t have the keywords in other parts of the document, don’t rely on having them in the URL.

A good rule of thumb of  URL SEO is to go no deeper than three directories from the root. Keep your hyphens down to 3 or fewer for the entire URL ,otherwise it will look like keyword stuffing. If you are aiming towards categorizing your content by developing these subdirectories, consider the first level of categories being a third level domain – www.mysite.com  and product.mysite.com, etc. Then, you can get your first big passes at the domain level, and can limit your full URL . Also, choose your 3rd levels carefully – hyphen rules count in those, too.

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