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to why one site places better in the search results than another.
Traditionally the search engines have shown a preference for static
appearing URLs that have limited parameters and are short in nature.
Shorter, cleaner URLs tend to resonate better with the user as well.URLs
help users navigate the website when they reflect the overall site
information architecture. Search engine friendly URLs are extremely
important in the SEO success of your website. Effective URLS:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Improve customer site experience with a consistent approach for domain name formats to improve site usability.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make it easier for the search engines to crawl, index and rank your site�s content.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Check out the article for 15 great URL guidelines and tips for effective URL optimization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.searchengineposition.com/blog/default.asp?Display=106</link><pubDate>07/28/2009 05:15:23</pubDate></item><item><title>Google's Best Practices for Product Search</title><description>Marketing Jive outline some of Google's &lt;a href="http://www.marketing-jive.com/2009/06/googles-best-practices-for-product.html" target="_blank"&gt;best practices for product search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.searchengineposition.com/blog/default.asp?Display=105</link><pubDate>06/18/2009 01:46:23</pubDate></item><item><title>SEO-Space Morphs Into Marketing Jive</title><description>The blog formerly known as SEO-Space has recently morphed into Marketing Jive a place for online marketing discussions.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.searchengineposition.com/blog/default.asp?Display=104</link><pubDate>01/23/2009 00:02:54</pubDate></item><item><title>SAR-R: Search and Rescuing ROI</title><description>Enquiro's Kyle Grant on the importance of improving return on investment (ROI) from search based activity. Included are 8 tips for improving ROI with Search based activity.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.searchengineposition.com/blog/default.asp?Display=103</link><pubDate>09/11/2008 01:59:24</pubDate></item><item><title>PPC Best Practices</title><description>Kyle Grant has written a great four part piece on key PPC best practices over at ASK Enquiro.� In the first installment, Kyle talked about how to stop thinking PPC and start thinking consumer initiated marketing.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.searchengineposition.com/blog/default.asp?Display=102</link><pubDate>08/14/2008 23:44:00</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
