Ok, I am rebuilding my site using a CMS. I have the option to do 2 things with my sites URL Structures. Option 1 is: mysite.com/section1/category1/content Option 2 is: mysite.com/category1/content Immediately it may seem like an easy answer however, however in terms of site hiearchy, will dropping the section from the URL hurt? Basically, my users will still have to search using section, ie: mysite.com/section it will then lead to mysite.com/category/ and so forth. The problem I am seeing is my sections are very general classifications and adding too much additional length to the URL could hurt rankings..so if I went with mysite.com/category I would be shortening the URL, thus maybe helping rankings and not appearing like the content is buried so deep. I hope I have made sense. It may come down to where it does not matter anyway. Regardless... any advice?
option 2 is good rather than option 1. if your keywords is 2 word phase then you can use hypen(-) between two words. like web-master not use webmaster or web_master or web master
Thank you, so in terms of hierarchy SE's namely google do not expect (or discount) perfect hierarchy? My breadcrumbs will still show section/category/content .... however my url will just show category/content..
well as far as hierarchy is concerned it is quite necessary to clearly define it for the user as well as search engine. if you breadcrumb contains section but URL do not then it will be contradictory. tell me one thing, what content the Section page will contain??? clear me about it and i may help you
The Section page is only there to organize the categories.. I have hundreds maybe thousands of categories so... If I use the section page to organize them alphabetically... For instance.. I have SECTION A , Then Section B and so forth... basically this is done so I am not filling my homepage with thousands of links. It is a silo attempt to also make it easier for the user.. however if terms of URLS I would rather leave "section a" out IF it is SEO appropiate. If not i will place it and be over it.. I just think it looks prettier to have mysite.com/category/content thank you!
got you...but what will be the URL of the page that contains section??? after all you can't put all the links on your home page