Read this article SEO Best Practices for URL Structure this evening and learned to use no more than 3-5 words in your URL as according to Google’s Matt Cutts if there are more than 5 words Google algorithms typically will just weight those words less and just not give you as much credit.
Due to my blatant SEO hacking ProgClub has finally made it to page 3 of search results for programmers’ club. Go team! :)
ProgClub aspires to be *the* Programmers’ Club. So first we get page 3, then we get page 1, then we get first result. Sound like a good plan?
You can help by blogging about ProgClub or linking to our Programmers’ Club page from your blog or your web-site. The text of your link should be “Programmers’ Club”, and you should link to the http://www.progclub.org/wiki/Programmers’_Club page.
p.s. We’re on page 2 for good programmers’ club and we’re on page 2 for the programmers’ club (page 1 in Australia: the programmers’ club).
p.p.s. I posted some more information on how I went about the SEO process.
p.p.p.s. I followed up with some more commentary about the best way to link to ProgClub.