Blog permalink levels for Google

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by UnEmployedAfterSchool, Jun 13, 2006.

  1. #1
    In my blog, I have set the following permalinks structure:

    /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
    5 Levels deep.

    Is it better to have less than 3 leves deep like:
    /archives/%postname%/

    Any suggestions
     
    UnEmployedAfterSchool, Jun 13, 2006 IP
  2. onedollar

    onedollar SEO Consultant for Hire

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    #2
    yes, less deeper the better :)
     
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  3. Jim_Westergren

    Jim_Westergren Notable Member

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    #3
    Just /%postname%/ is the best IMHO.
     
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  4. UnEmployedAfterSchool

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    #4
    If I change from 5 levels to just 2 levels. MSN has indexed my pages as 5 levels deep. Now if I change them to 2 levels, I have to .htaccess redirect for every single pages that msn has indexed? Is there an easier approach to do the redirect?
     
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    #6
    does google treat the directory structure as the levels, or do they follow the link and use the link structure to determine the level?

    Example

    domain.com links to domain.com/one/two/three/four/five/six.html

    Does google treat that as level 6 or level 1 since there is a direct link from the main page to filename1.html?

    How about this.

    domain.com -> domain.com/one/one.html -> domain.com/one/two/two.html -> domain.com/one/two/three/three.html -> domain.com/four.html

    Does google see this as level 4 since it is 4 hops from the main domain, or is it level 1 since html file four.html is in the main directory?
     
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