I'm in the process of renaming my site's filenames to make them more SEO friendly, so basically most of them are named incorrectly right now, can somebody give me suggestions on the best way to name them? For example, this is the web hosting page: http://www.bounceweb.com/index-2.php Obviously the filename "index-2.php" doesn't help in regards of SEO purposes. Should I: 1) Rename the file to "web-hosting.php" (then update my links) 2) Rename the file to "index.php" and move it to the directory "web-hosting", which will translate to the URL: http://www.bounceweb.com/web-hosting (then update my links) Which is the best, and why? Thanks people.
If you can it's better to make all files not very deep. 2 or 3 level is better except you are a directory. If you put: http://www.bounceweb.com/web-hosting/ it will spider the files 2 level deep. http://www.bounceweb.com/web-hosting.php will be 1 level deep.
Hey there, In general, you will lose 1 PR for each folder level you create. For example... 1. http://www.myDomain.com/someLevel/test.cfm 2. http://www.myDomain.com/test.cfm Option 1 will probably be one PR less than if you selected option 2. By the way, it is great for SEO to use file names like web-hosting.php. Try to use your keywords in your filenames. Sincerely, Travis Walters
Yep, that's not a set on stone rule, but it's practically true in one and another way. However, Yahoo loves "deep" folders in someway. So...