Does the position of keywords in the URL affect ranking?

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.

Adeel from Manchester, UK asked:

Does the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact:
example.com/keyword/London is better than example.com/London/keyword?

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[gegan250]

Absolutely Godly to have Cutts speak about specific topics. Having years of SEO in, mostly blind, it's reading the answers from the back of the book whenever he talks.

[marksimons84]

lol! I think all these vids were made on the same day.

[niged0]

The short answer is YES.

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[mwebsolutions]

Matty Cutts - your the man!

[MensWatchUK]

Just learning about SEO and Matt your advice is invaluable ...thank you

[janeashelbacon]

This video was so helpful. I appreciate the way he deliver his discussions.

[AlexRaGeAHoLiC]

Yes but there is no option on blogger to change permalinks...

[bigboycat1]

I DETELE MY VOTE UP ACCIENT HOW CAN I FIX THIS I CANT VOTE DOWN BECAUSE ACCIENT REMOVE MY NAME FROM VOTE I NEED HELP 

[Rafał Magda]

The question was simple, but there were TIPs not an answer. Does it matter or not? I do not want to hear what is better practise...

[salaser19]

En mi experiencia he notado q SI hay diferencia, tener el keyword mas a la izquierda es mejor (Y)

[CarMoves]

He was NOT talking about domain names, but keywords in the URL, after the domain.