What type of URL is better for directory? http://www.mysite.com/Internet/SEO/ or http://www.mysite.com/c124/ Second variant is less informative, but requires a little resources. And It's shorter. What you think about it?
for normal visitor ofcourse second one is better. if its using mod_rewrite Mod rewrite guide lines one has to use the parameters those are passing to file. so accounding to guidelines second one is right. --> eidted TYPO
Users would prefer the first one... and search engines should prefer that one too, although I'm not sure they really do.
1. Is really it's important for visitors? 2. What better for SE: - http://www.mysite.com/dir/United_States/Massachusetts/cat/Property_Management/ or more short link: - http://www.mysite.com/cat/124/ ??? I think, what for PR second variant is better...
I keep the urls as short as possible and all at the same directory level if possible. I wouldn't have thought users use the url to navigate directories.
The main impact that the domain name will have is its ability (or inability) to get you links with appropriate anchor text.
Usually, directoryes use the next type of URL: /word1_word2_word3/ this schema don't contain keywords, for SE it's one word. The next schema better than previous, but difficult to made: /word1-word2-word3/ in this case, directory can't have the categories with '-' symbol