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URL or Uniform Resource Locator, is the address of a web site, page or location on the web, commonly written  http://metroecho.com/. Basically this is your business or personal address on the web.

Then as pages are added to the wed site an extention is added to the base URL like http://metroecho.com/legal_service or http://metroecho.com/node/22

Both of the above could get you to the same page yet the more discriptive one will be noticed by search engines like Google. When somene is looking for legal services the URL extention "legal_service" would be show on that search.  

SEO Search engine optimization is the service of making your website show up on the top of the seach. There are experts that charge high fees to provide you with this service, but its very simple and most efforts to try to game the search engine don't work as the search engines like Google are constantly preventing it.

The best to get your site and pages noticed is..

1.  Choose URLs that describe what you are presenting... like "atlanta_furniure_store", or "teak_chair ".  Then repeat key words in the content.

2. Tell everyone to go to your site 4 times a day, ha ha, but as much as possible. The more trafic the higher you will rise on the charts.      

Its simple and effective.      

When creating or editing a page you will see as the third link from the bottom " URL path settings ". Here you can give the page you are making an alternative URL, one that search engines can read. Discribe the page with one or two words that will attract the market like retro_desk. Remenber a "Node" is the page. 

Instructions on the link...

"Optionally specify an alternative URL by which this node can be accessed. For example, type "about" when writing an about page. Use a relative path and don't add a trailing slash or the URL alias won't work."