Web Routing Best Practices for Naming urls NOT MVC

Question

Working on routing my site and am wondering what a good standard is for naming regular pages? I was going to name them like:

/Daily-Winners

But I want to reserve the - multiword syntax for titles of threads, blog posts, etc., not for regular traffic pages.

Is there a standard or guideline to make this more attractive for SEO?

Especially for acronyms, like SEO:

/SEO/mySeoPage
/Search-Engine-Optimization/mySeoPage

Better to use full words or the acronym?

TIA

Answer 1

As a general rule, the more sense an URL makes to a human, the more sense it makes to a search engine, and the higher rank it will get. For example, compare

http://yoursite.com/SEO/tips?id=1 

to

http://yoursite.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tips/1

Everyone, including search engines, will like the latter better.

Answer 2

Full words is a winner since you'll get more keyword matches.

Regarding regular pages vs article URLs, I don't think it will make any difference (SEO wise) to group them.