Comments on: SEO Best Practices for URL Structure

By: bathroom_suites

bathroom_suites — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:04:45 +0000

I think this is really good post for doing seo practices for url structure.

By: bathroom_suites

bathroom_suites — Mon, 03 May 2010 05:04:45 +0000

I think this is really good post for doing seo practices for url structure.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:41:57 +0000

Dan L.,
I think your structure is SEO-fine in both variants as long as page, category and article name describe the main idea of the content that is inside.

You can also change it to smth like homepage.com-page-category-article.html, I did it for my website with LinkFreeze.

By: Dan L.

Dan L. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:21:54 +0000

Hi Ann,

I have a question related to URL structure… Let’s say that I have a homepage, and a link to a page from there. Then I have category links within that page. Then in the category page I have links to articles.

What would be the correct URL structure:

1. homepage.com — homepage.com/page/ — homepage.com/page/category/ — homepage.com/page/category/article.html

2. homepage.com — homepage.com/page/ — homepage.com/category/ — homepage.com/article.html

3. Something else?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

By: Brian West

Brian West — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:21:09 +0000

Any preference by the search engines for ending your urls in a slash (e.g. http://www.something.com/page-name-no-extension/ vs. a file extension (e.g. http://www.someting.com/page-name.html /.htm, .apx, .php etc.)

Thanks!

By: Boston SEO

Boston SEO — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:37:05 +0000

Nice tips Ann. I was told dashes were better than underscores, but never thought much into it. I think I am going to have to bookmark this article.

By: Sahil

Sahil — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:00:41 +0000

Hi,

I have a question with seo friendly domain name.

“Which one domain is better hyphenated or non hyphenated, does search engines feels spammy to hyphenated domains?”

Best Regards

By: Moosa Hemani

Moosa Hemani — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:29:08 +0000

No, I really don’t think so that Google is not indexing you URL due to spammy links and on the other hand according to the SEO Moz tool the given link is not spammy. i was having the same issue few days back with one of my website.

i will prefer to submit your xml site map again and fix the issues (may be non www issues)

By: Tam

Tam — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:47:24 +0000

Hi Ann,
I don’t see google index most of my url
on this page http://www.bailmeoutcoupons.com/coupon-code/discount-stores.html
Is this because most of the url are too long ? Here is one of the sample url
http://www.bailmeoutcoupons.com/coupon-code/stores/Samsonite-Company-Store-Coupon-Codes-Deals.html

shoud I rename it to ../Samsonite.html or ../Samsonite-Company-Store.html ?
If I rename all of these url so shorter url, will I get penalty for pages not found for some of these pages (200+) already index on google ?

Thanks
Tam

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:33:00 +0000

Hey Brian, would this discussion be helpful? http://www.searchenginejournal.com/subdomains-or-subfolders-which-are-better-for-seo/6849/