Hey all, I am in a bit of a pickle deciding what URL structure I should use to get best SEO performance. /movies/m123123 or (with or without .html on the end) /movies/some-move-name /movies/r123123 or (with or without .html on the end) /movies/review-123123 The /movies/ part needs to stay as this is a section of my website. Is placing .html on the end of the urls an benefit for users/SEO? The movies might have 2-3 reviews for them so I would require a number on them. Unless someone else has a suggestion on a better method then the number. The reason for thinking of the numbers is so the URLs are short without having some bulky name on the URL. If having a longer movie name doesn't really affect anything then I would most likely chose using the name over a number. However I would like to keep a constant URL structure through out the website. The website is basically just going to be a small movie review website on a specific movie genre. (Its not just a imdb clone) Thanks, any suggestions will be appreciated MeiNie
My suggestion is to not use numbers in your url if possible. Use something like http://domain.com/movies/name-of-movie/reviews.html The html part wont make any differance in the search engines, and you may pick up more traffic with the title in the url DD
I see lots of the bigger sites doing it like this movies.domainname.com/name-of-movie/review1 or you can do it like you stated...I asked a similar question didn't get a definitive response. domainname.com/movies/name-of-movie/review1 I think the reason for using movies first is for SEO purposes as the word closest in the url gets the most juice just like a kw in a domain. the first example will rank you better for movies, whereas the second will rank you better for your domainname. I'm not positive but in my experience the sooner and quicker a kw shows up the better.
My suggestion is you stay concerned about content and NOT the url link. I have a wordpress blog that is being devoured by Google serps and I have a url like 10/08/2008/name-of-post-here Concentrate on whats important. I don't think it will make a difference in my eyes. my 2 cents
As per i thought you should not use .html, .asp, aspx or .php when url ends. You don't need to show SE's, in which form your website is built up. They automatically can find the same. Thanks and Regards, Bloomtools.