Hi, This topic has probably gotten beaten to death several times, but with regard to directories specifically in GOOGLE [I'm sure it varies from SE to SE, so I have to make a decision for the most important one -- G ] . Let's say I have a product in the categories Home Products > Kitchen > Blenders > Big Badass Blenders My concern is that if I make the URL like this: Home-Products/Kitchen/Blenders/Big-Badass-Blenders/Product-Name.html ... that it gets way too long. I can do two things: List only the last category: Big-Badass-Blenders/Product-Name.html List 2 of the categories: Blenders/Big-Badass-Blenders/Product-Name.html The latter is slightly problematic because it totally disregards the actual purpose for directories -- i.e. without the full path, it doesn't actually provide structure. So my question, then, is, does GOOGLE actually look at the directory _STRUCTURE_ when analyzing your site? It's arbitrary for me, because I'm using mod-rewrite, but does it use the directories to actually organize/process information. Or should I just not give a crap ? My choices are, though. Full category / .. / .. / Product.html Last category / Product.html 2nd to last category / last category / Product.html
http://www. sitename.com/products/pid pid = product id # or code have php (and .thaccess file) do the rest on the back end. Have breadcrumb trail on the page so the user know what category(ies) he's in.
I'm trying to one-up that by having actual keywords in the name ... I'm concluding it probably doesn't matter, so long as the URLs are non-dynamic.
I think it may matter more on yahoo. MSN at one time was having trouble spidering down directories ( dunno it's status now) I don't thin its that much on google. all spamers (or most) are doing the/lots/of/keywords separated by / or-by-dashes. its easier to do it a shorter way (for coding sake).
I already have the code written. I just need to decide what number of categories to display .. 1, 2, or ALL