[JMasterJ]

(Apologies in advance for this all in one query, but I thought this would be better than asking multiple separate questions right now... maybe we can make it a sticky! )

With the ever changing google engine and marketing, I would like to know the latest on what is the most advantageous as far as plain URL attributes are concerned..... here are my following cases: (if you can, please rate from 1-10 how important each case may be... i.e., strong content+great inbound links would be a 9 or 10... page layout being like 1 or 2)

1. Is ".com" still the best? Does google and yahoo really play favorites here? I have a bunch of good root names for .INFO and .PRO.... so whats more important, the root name or the extension?

2. Do hyphens/underscore help break up the keywords positively or negatively, if at all?

3. How important is the file names associated with anything that follows the root URL?

4. Is using multiple URL's for the same page, all keyword rich, bad or good? I.e., one of them would be the live site and all other would be either just forwarded or whatever other options there are for this concept.

5. Is it true that less than ~2500 words of content per web site can hurt?

6. Is embedded video from youtube the most effective single content component on a web page?

So here are some real example... to simply, my keywords would be abc, 123, xyz... please if you can, rearrange them to go from best to worst.... I will do my best to put them in the order I think is best:

abc-123-xyz.com/abc-123-xyz/abc-123-xyz.htm
abc_123_xyz.com/abc_123_xyz/abc_123_xyz.htm
abc123xyz.com/abc123xyz/abc123xyz.htm

abc-123-xyz.com/index.htm
abc-123-xyz.info/index.htm
abc-123-xyz.pro/index.htm

etc.....

Thanks!

[madness222]

Originally Posted by JMasterJ

1. Is ".com" still the best? Does google and yahoo really play favorites here? I have a bunch of good root names for .INFO and .PRO.... so whats more important, the root name or the extension?

I guess Yes .com is still the best, and I think there is no favoritism involve in this situation, .com is just more than importance in the search engines, it's also about credibility with the people checking out the links...