Would key words in file names help SEO?

L

Lochi

Suppose my site is about my restaurant. I have several picture files on my
site.
When building the site, in stead of naming these picture files “table†and
“kitchen†etc., I could call them “table exquisite cuisine wines steak fish
deserts food†and “kitchen exquisite cuisine wines steak fish deserts foodâ€
etc. Of course this is not visible to site visitors, but it will be visible
to the search engines.
Will the spiders now not come across more key words than just the text, and
rate my site better? Is this legit?
Thanx
Lochi
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

The SEO index sites based on the visible text on the pages.

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p c

Domain name is very important. Word that is part of the domain name will
show-up higher. For example searching for "soap" at google
sites with soap as part of the domain name will show up higher.

e.g. www.soapforalloccasions.com

Another important thing that can affect ranking in google, is links to
your site/pages from other *relevant* sites. That's why you see people
joining web rings. There have been reports that google wil penalize if
the links are not from a relevant sites.

...PC
 
P

P@tty Ayers

p c said:
Domain name is very important. Word that is part of the domain name will
show-up higher. For example searching for "soap" at google
sites with soap as part of the domain name will show up higher.

e.g. www.soapforalloccasions.com
Click to expand...

Actually, spiders cannot and do not pick the word "soap" out of
"soapforalloccasions.com", and so it does no good at all.

"soap-for-all-occasions.com", however, will help.
 
J

Jon Spivey

Yes they do for one word search terms. They'd pick out for example a one
word search for "soap" from fancysoap.com but they wouldn't pick out a
search for "fancy soap". For this you'd want fancy-soap.com for the search
engines and fancysoap.com for users.

The page url is more important than the domain name, search engines look
first for one page that matches a keyword and then for the site itself. All
else being equal on the phrase "soap for all occasions"
www.soapforalloccasions.com/page.htm
would be beaten by
www.somename.com/Soap_For_All_Occasions.htm

The real reason for using good domain names is to attract type-in traffic,
realistically that's not an option now as any domain name that's going to
attract type in is either taken or for sale at silly money.
 
S

Steve Easton

You would be better off using those terms in the page titles.


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P

p c

I guess that's the case then. My site is rank #3 at google based on one
word search for that word. It is in the foramt of www.word###.com. The
top 2 have the word as part of the URL (but not the domain) but they
have many, many more links to those pages (it is a government site).

...PC
 
L

LouiseR

Hi,

Reading the examples above soap_for_all_occasions would take priority
over soapforalloccasions. My question is if I replaced the underscores
with hyphens (- rather than _) which of these two would take priority?

Thanks, Louise
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

hyphens




| Hi,
|
| Reading the examples above soap_for_all_occasions would take priority
| over soapforalloccasions. My question is if I replaced the underscores
| with hyphens (- rather than _) which of these two would take priority?
|
| Thanks, Louise
|
 
P

P@tty Ayers

That is my understanding, and that words combined with other words
(soapforalloccasions.com) are not understood at all by spiders.
 
P

P@tty Ayers

No. He and I are saying different things. :)


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M

Murray

Jon -> embedded words will be found
Patty -> embedded words will not be found

You are correct - those two are different.
 
J

Jon Spivey

I didn't think you knew about SEO stuff :) Do a search on Google for "soap"
and look at the results. Hint - the fourth one (soapware.org) should give it
away.
 
P

P@tty Ayers

Jon Spivey said:
I didn't think you knew about SEO stuff :)
Click to expand...

Beg pardon? I've only been dealing with it since 1994. :) I'm glad to be
corrected if I'm wrong, though.
Do a search on Google for "soap" and look at the results. Hint - the
fourth one (soapware.org) should give it away.
Click to expand...

I see that, but does the fact that 'soap' is highlighted in the domain name
prove that Google ranks the site well because of its presence there?
Obviously we don't know Google's algorithms.
 

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