How deep can I go?

I have articles on my website. Guides and FAQ.

Anyway these are all under the ssame script that just uses mod rewrite to list it niceley.

The problem I think is that I use / to separate. Is this a problem.

An example link could be:



domain.com/support/guides/main_category/sub_category/this-is-an-article-in-a-sub

I also dont have .html at the end.

Should I clean this up?

 

Shouldn't be an issue, just be careful not to have the URL string get too long. good luck.

 

i wouldn't use more then two sub sections in a link. the SE's frown on super long deep links.

 

You should surely make that shorter.

 

If the article is getting links to it by other sites shouldn't matter much.

 

thats a deeeeeeeeep link. shorten it if you can. the .html at the end doesn't matter.

 

Okay well.

I think I will change to .html anyway. Users will like to see .html rather then a directory.

I could do this:

domain/cat-{catname}-sub-{subcatname}-{article-name}

is that a problem? with having a too long listing?

 

thats not as bad but I still thing 3 is max!

 

Okay thanks. That clears things up quite a bit.

It will take me quite a while to edit all the links to work correctly with the new system but I think it will be worth getting it done.

If you dont mind answering this I would be grateful. No one seems to have taken a shine to this topic:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=226206

 

I will take a look at it, glad we could help you here dude. One last thing though, if the current links are getting indexed, don't change them. Just create them over again and link from the old pages to them. That way your not breaking off any links

 

That would be difficult to do. I could leave the modrewrite patterns in place...

But thats it.

 

Hmm, I can understand your dilemma, well its up to you to decide what you think is best. But if it were my site, I would try to figure out a way to do what I suggested.