Structure URLs for SEO Points

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by A2ZITWebmaster, Apr 7, 2012.

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    What’s the best way to structure URL’s for SEO points?

    A number of people say that pages should be close to the root of the domain. So we could have:

    xyz.com/product-one-keywords.html
    xyz.com/product-two-keywords.html

    and others say that a logical URL directory structure should be used, such as:

    xzy.com/category/subcategory/product-one-keyword.html
    xyz.com/other-category/subcategory/product-two-keyword.html

    Which I prefer seo point of views.

    Thanks in Advance.
     
    A2ZITWebmaster, Apr 7, 2012 IP
  2. rising_sun

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    I usually prefer pages closed to root; but actually it depends on the structure of the website and its demands.
     
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  3. jameshoops

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    I think is secend one is more preferable from 1st one.
     
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  4. Nick Banner

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    I always try to keep the urls as short as it goes. I would go for something like this:

    http://domain.com/product/keyword (page)

    and then I would build a blog as well that would be:

    http://domain.com/'general product niche'-reviews/keyword-review (blog style to point on the static pages above)
     
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  5. ryan_uk

    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    The problem with domain.com/category/title or domain.com/category/subcategory/title is that you could end up with the same words repeated a few times in the URL. It really depends on what type of site it is, though.

    For news sites, I use domain.com/yyyy/mm/title but for blogs/information sites, I use domain.com/title. For both, the categories are domain.com/category/category-name/ so it's easy to tell what's a category and what's a page/article. I also prefer shorter URLs.

    There's a good blog post on URLs from SEOmoz:

    http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls
     
    ryan_uk, Apr 7, 2012 IP