Site & Link Structure Opinions Wanted
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Could you take a look at my site and help me optimize it.
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nice, that answers a lot. You've been a huge help.
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for the .html, just use permalinks.
Use yoast, so you can change the titles. Just do the 2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster, you don't need to repeat the site name again.
I don't think you need to come up with different titles. It is what it is in reality.
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Ok, about .html
is that something I just add manually to the permalink? or should I use some type of plugin? I use wordpress.
I like the idea of 1999-season.
The site is named Pittsburgh Steelers Roster (maybe a mistake but that's ok)
My page titles are "2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster"
So the page title tags look like
"2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster | Pittsburgh Steelers Roster"
This is going to be perceived as keyword stuffing, correct?
So, I should come up with a more creative page title, correct?
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I actually did the same thing a few years back, on a exact match domain. I got slaughtered.
If you can use different keywords in the page url, it would be best. I would even go as far as to say, putting a .html behind it. ex: 1999.html
or
/1990-1999/1999-playoff-run.html or 14-wins-3-loses.html or 1999-season.html
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Ok, I did make most of the changes you've suggested.
I changed /history/ to:
/roster-history/
only because the site is going to have a lot of historic content about the decades, years, teams, and players.
I have a question about this URL:
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/roster-history/1990-1999/1999-pittsburgh-steelers-roster/
Would Google penalize me for having repeated the keywords in the URL? why does it makes sense to shorten this URL?
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just quickly, I would not have two mention of your keywords in the url:
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/history/1990-1999/1999-pittsburgh-steelers-roster/
I would almost think this would be a better structure, even though I'm not a fan of using "roster" again, but it makes sense from a user's standpoint.
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/rosters
this page should show all the years groupings.
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/rosters/1990-1999
This page shows all the year links
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/rosters/1990-1999/1999
Roster info.
This:
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/history/2010-present/
should be
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/history/2010-2019 that's just a consistency thing.Same with this:
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/about-pittsburgh-steelers-roster/
should be
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/about
I wouldn't repeat the Keywords in the title twice as well.
Put some more content in it, and see how that goes.
Hope this helps, and Go Steelers!
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