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# SEO - Relevant Filenames

One of the simplest methods to improve your search engine optimization is to look at the way you name your files. Before writing this tutorial I did lot of research on file names and found that search engines like google give too much importance to file names. You should think what are you going to put in your web page and then give a relevant file name to this page.

Just try giving any keyword in google search engine and you will find file names highlighted with the keyword you have given. So it simply prove that your file name should have appropriate keyword.

## File Naming Style:

- The filename should preferably be short and descriptive. Its always good to use same keywords in file name as well as in page title.

- Don't use file names like service.htm or job.htm. But use actual service name in your file name like computer-repairing.htm

- Don't use more than 3-4 words in file name and separate them with hyphens rather than underscores. Try to use 2 keywords if possible.

## File Name Example:

Here are some file names which should be preferred from SEO as well as from user point of view.

    slazenger-brand-balls.html
    wimbledon-brand-balls.html
    wilson-brand-balls.html

Notice that keywords are separated by hyphens rather than underscores. Google sees file names as follows:

    seo-relevant-filename as seo relavant filename(good)

But Google sees

    seo_relevant_filename as seorelevantfilename (not good)

## File Extension:

Its should be noticed that .html, .htm and .php and any other extension do NOTHING for your visitors, and are simply a means of offloading some of the work of configuring your webserver properly onto your visitors. In effect you are askign them to tell your webseever HOW to produce the page, not which one.

Many Web masters think that its a good idea to use filename without using extention. It may help you but not a whole lot.

## URL Sub-Directory Name:

From Search Engine Optimization point of view URL sub-direcrtory name hardly matters. You try giving any keyword in any search and you will not find any sub-directory name matching with your keywords. But from user point of view you should keep very much abbreviatd sub-directory name.

## Conslusion:

- Use web page file name short, simple, descriptive and relevant to page content.

- Try to use maximum 3-4 keywords in your file name and these keywords should be appeared in your web page title as well.

- Separate all keyword with hyphen rather than with underscore.

- Keep your sub directories name as much short as possible.

- Keep the file size under 101K though because Google chops anything above that.

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