SEO Best Practice : Keywords in thread URLs

[mreyes]

From an SEO perspective is it better to have thread URLs in this format:

http://www.mysite.com/14313-keywords...ead-title.html

or:

http://www.mysite.com/keywords-from-thread-title-24223/

Which is how this forum is configured

or:

http://www.mysite.com/t24223/

or something else?

or does it not make any difference whatsoever?

[Joe Ward]

I would expect option 1 to be the most beneficial. It configures the thread as a HTML page, instead of a virtual directory, and it contains keywords.

These keywords are not only helpful for general SEO, but may also lead to higher clicks from the search engines when they are in the results, and more relevant ads.