Comments on: URL Structure: The Closer to the Root – the Better?

By: jack parler

jack parler — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:51:00 +0000

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:55:24 +0000

@Joe, OK, now I had to keep the previous comment so that yours could make sense :)

By: joe

joe — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:53:44 +0000

Nice pictures, indeed ! The Searchenginejournal spammed by a blogspot spammer : ). URLs are a mess to deal with. Especially within the case of a multilingual website, where different translations of the contents should be accessed form different domains — and should be indexed with different URL translations… Do anyone know any reliable ressource on these cases ?

By: Funny Pictures

Funny Pictures — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:33:19 +0000

wow it’s really great pictures… am very happy to this pictures..

By: Fábio Ricotta

Fábio Ricotta — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:36:23 +0000

I strongly believe that URL path matters to Google. As Frank said, Google is showing just what matters into their snippet. It looks that Google is just showing us that the URL size don’t matter too much, but you should care to give users an easy way to remember your URL (increasing CTR).

By: Patricia Skinner

Patricia Skinner — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:58:52 +0000

This is a really nice post Ann. Not nearly enough attention is paid to the subject of URLs.

By: Edward Beckett

Edward Beckett — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:49:47 +0000

Nice post Ann … Regarding “intuitive URIs” … Be careful if you use Apache’s mod_content w “Multi-Views ” enabled … It causes duplicate content issues since multiple URL’s are able to point to the same pages …

And it doesn’t work with most WP Permalink structures either …

http://www.edwardbeckett.com/Blog/index.cfm/2009/1/11/Florida-Search-Engine-Optimization-raquo-Apache-MultiViews-raquo-ModRewrite

By: Frank Marcel

Frank Marcel — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:40:07 +0000

I strongly believe in this: “it is more about the “visibility” of the page and proper interlinking than its actual location.”

- “if you are using “virtual folder” which returns no content or 404 status code when queried directly”
nice point, but it would probably show up in Webmasters Tools report, at least, it would be fair.

@Michael Martinez: good point. And considering “longer URLs are cut off in Google SERPs”, maybe the algorithms are showing the words that matter in the URL, no matter how long they are. Besides, this is my general feeling, as I often see this happening through search results. Anyone else too?

oh! great post, Ann! =)

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:40:24 +0000

Great topic, Ann. Also a great vindication of my recent moves from blog.cre8asite.net/bwelford/ to bpwrap.com and strategicmarketingmontreal.ca to smmbc.ca

By: gudipudi

gudipudi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:05:10 +0000

Yeah , thats true..Short urls will increase the user experience.Maintaining short paths helps us to edit the site pages or site navigation in much easier fashion.