{"id":3946,"date":"2021-12-10T12:33:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/10\/google-category-or-topic-name-in-url-slug-is-not-important-for-seo\/"},"modified":"2021-12-10T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:33:06","slug":"google-category-or-topic-name-in-url-slug-is-not-important-for-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/10\/google-category-or-topic-name-in-url-slug-is-not-important-for-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google: Category Or Topic Name In URL Slug Is Not Important For SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s John Mueller said putting the category name or topic name in your URL slug has zero impact on your rankings.  I am not 100% sure if he really meant ZERO but he used a GIF that says ZERO.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:UCg8P_nGCaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=UCg8P_nGCaA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:hl8ANDcrVaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=hl8ANDcrVaY\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:V-t1I-SPZMU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=V-t1I-SPZMU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:Gu391qSwH_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=Gu391qSwH_A\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:cGdyc7Q-1BI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:MbsSfiz-sEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=MbsSfiz-sEw\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=W-rJQA9UQPA:OcJtnjp7F80:qj6IDK7rITs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s John Mueller said putting the category name or topic name in your URL slug has zero impact on your rankings. I am not 100% sure if he really meant ZERO but he used a GIF that says ZERO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}