How you should structure your urls for best SEO practices
The crew at Yoast really don’t want you to use stop words in your URLs. Stop words, like “the”, offer no benefit and are unnecessary. If you look at some of the posts on this blog, they differ in length and do contain various stop words. While I agree, that they aren’t going to help increase your rankings for a particular keyword, I don’t believe that they can have a negative impact all that much.
