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    • enchantedgirlz
      enchantedgirlz last edited by

      I understand the importance of having the keyword in the URL (at least now I do).  When I created my site (www.enchantingquotes.com), I was completely ignorant about SEO.  So....question is...how do I go about adding keywords to already done pages?  Do I create a new section and then redirect - or do I have to basically recreate pages?  Thx much 🙂

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      • MalcolmGibb
        MalcolmGibb last edited by

        You can change your page file names to your keywords. Make sure they are relevant to the actual page and not overly spammy.

        so for example your kitchen quote page could be renamed from:

        http://www.enchantingquotes.com/kitchenbath.html

        to

        http://www.enchantingquotes.com/**kitchen-****and-bath-quotes.html**

        The way to do this is to rename the actual files, you will have to remember to change all links and also add 301 redirects to each new page from the old. You can learn more about how to do that at http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/url and http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection.

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