Do extra words in url affect SEO?
- by smp7d
Often for technical reasons we end up with some extra words in a url that we would not want to optimize for as they would have no bearing on the content.
Examples would be:
sportssite.com/content/sports-article
movieportal.com/node/movie-review
electronicsforum.com/blog/top-10-cameras
webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/34046/do-extra-words-in-url-affect-seo
Do these have any affect on ranking in any of the major search engines? Would it behoove us to strip the extra words?