Link structure

Hello,

I have noticed that many news sites use this link structure with folders:

/numberofpost/keyword1/keyword2/keyword3/

example: http://www.url.ext/news/393751/0/britney/spears/song/


What do you think? Will this affect in rankings as all are like folder? Or its better /date/postname ?

Thanks.

 

The keyword1/keyword2/keyword3 structure is wrong.
It should be /news/393751/0/britney-spears-song/, which is much more useful.

 

Most of the news site use those structures like cnn: edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/29/us.iran/index.html

 

Ya this is true second option is better than the first...

Thanks

 

i think its per category thats why..

 

Most of them use the title keywords in the urls, so its not just category.

 

this is well formated..

 

all of these will work but as a rule of thumb you generally want your keywords for the page as close to the root URL as possible, example: www.yourdomain.com/keywords-go-here/

 

Which one is better?

/27-06-2008/postname
/27062008/postname
/27/06/2008/postname

 

I think the first one.

 

First one for sure.

 

I also feel that this is the correct one: /news/393751/0/britney-spears-song/

More deep the URL will be more less chances will be there for that to be crawled

 

How long the url should be to avoid google doing it shorter?

 

i don't think so there is any standard limit to the URL length.

 

Always remember:
hyphen is accounted more SEO-friendly than any other separator
so first one is the best choice