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Hi,

I'm having a nosey around some local SEO companies and can't make my mind up if the following is a bit black hat and isn't something I've seen before.

There's a website that has a news listing on the main page and the links are as follows (lets say the target keywords are 'web design manchester').

news.php?manchester-web-design=news&id=678&web-design=1

Not sure ifd this is recognized technique, but haven't seen it before.

What do you think?
 
As with most SEO URLs it looks fairly ugly. I prefer the 'fake folder' approach, whether or not its the best way I don't know.

(i.e. /news/manchester/webdesign with the ability to drop off say /webdesign and see the root index for Manchester)
 
That's not black hat at all - that's incredibly white hat. Making friendly URLs is better for search engines (more keywords in the URL, better keyword density) and it's also better for the end user (they can pass links to their friends that don't look strange, e.g. with lots of question marks and other variables in it.)

You're only blackhat when you start using xrumer to spam your link on forums and have a network of thousands of Splogs scraping content from other sites etc.
 
daz said:
That's not black hat at all - that's incredibly white hat. Making friendly URLs is better for search engines (more keywords in the URL, better keyword density) and it's also better for the end user (they can pass links to their friends that don't look strange, e.g. with lots of question marks and other variables in it.)

You're only blackhat when you start using xrumer to spam your link on forums and have a network of thousands of Splogs scraping content from other sites etc.
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Well I've used mod rewrite before and made friendly urls E.g. domain.com/category/product. But doing it the way I posted has never occurred to me, just seemed a bit shady at first glance. :)
 
Stick a forum with vbseo on your web design talk site :p

Also, have the recent posts widget on your wordpress get the last 20-30 posts, maybe more... it helps google get to all of your content very quickly. :)
 
I don't see anything underhand with that first link? What are we looking at?

All I see is a messy dynamic URL. Definitely not the epitome of SEO.
 
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