If your webpage or blog has a URL (
http://www.yoursite.com/page12.html)
Theres likely to be thousands of users using that keyword however if you define your page name.
http://www.yoursite.com/cheese-sandw...are-yummy.html)
You are more likely to be picked up for 'cheese sandwiches'
or 'cheese is yummy'
Opposed to a human and spider going Hmm, what has Page12 got on it? what the heck is it talking about.
Wordpress has a good help article on Permalinks just scroll down it somewhere near the bottom.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging