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••••••>File Naming Conventions for Top SEO

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Article Overview: Naming your website files properly can go a long way in increasing your SEO -Search engine rankings

••••••>File Naming Conventions for Top SEO

Naming your website files properly can go a long way in increasing your SEO -Search engine rankings. Not only should you have keywords in your file names, but you should also be able to write in the correct naming convention. A page's file name will be the first thing that web search spiders will see when the index your website. Thus, you have to make sure that your file names are highly related to the content of your website. Here are five more things that you should know regarding file naming conventions:

1) Do not change website file names if your page has already been indexed.

2) File names should be associated with "hot button keywords", keywords that are important to, and are part of your website.

3) File names should be able to tell the website user/reader what is contained within the content of the website.

4) Always use a dash (-) instead of underscores (_) for multiple keywords.

5) Use these rules for SEO, for all website elements such as images and videos to achieve Top rankings within the Search Engines.

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