Search Engine Watch Case Study: Success with Static URLs

Search Engine Watch Case Study Demonstates the SEO Advantages of Using Static URLs

Thousands of vBSEO users take advantage of the power of using static URLs and achieving link consistency and consensus with the vBSEO solution.

Search Engine Watch just completed an independent case study, which
also clearly demonstrates the power of static URLs.

Highlights:

The case study showed that this simple change alone had a significant impact on the sites search engine visibility.

The number of indexed pages in Google almost doubled, tripled in Yahoo! and almost quadrupled in MSN.

The traffic from organic search results increased by 50%

No negative effects of 301-ing:

There was virtually no negative impact of the change for the site in SEW’s case study. The number of pages indexed and traffic simply was going up only. In record time I might add.

Traffic Changes:

11/01/2006: 9,000
01/03/2007: 12,000 (+3,000 Hits)
03/01/2007: 13,500 (+4,500 Hits)


Notes on vBSEO

• In less than 5 minutes, vBSEO is installed and completely converts vBulletin forums into a static URL structure without SEO inefficient dynamic URLs.

For Discussion

• How valuable would an extra 4,500 hits be to you?
• Do you want to significantly improve your vBulletin SEO in less than 5 minutes?

Source:
Remapping Dynamic URLs to Static URLs can Increase Traffic
No Fear of Remapping URLs of your Site

Static urls are always favoured by search engines. It helps to seperate your content.

Search engines are just an automated bots, which can get confused by the long parameters passed in dynamic pages.

Having a short seo friendly url will result in better crawl, and higher rankings on search engines.