Which URL structure should I use?

[brianvest]

• samhillbands.com/bands/Charlottesville-VA-Wedding-Bands

• samhillbands.com/wedding/bands/Charlottesville-VA-Bands

[danwebman]

I would agree with Miram Ellis, I try to make my URLs as small as possible and then use Google Custom Variables to categorise content on the site for Analytics.

Therefore my answer would be: samhillbands.com/Charlottesville-VA-Wedding-Bands

[GastonRiera]

HI Brian,

Have you thought about what you want to target with such URL structure?
I believe that there should be two main targets that you shoul pursue:

1- Making URL the most frendly as possible. e.g.: Domain.com/Charlottesville-VA-Wedding-Bands
2- Using the complete URL usefull for you or your visitros: e.g.: Domain.com/bands/Charlottesville-VA-Wedding

Of course, there has to be some keyword research and planning there. I understand that the keyword you're using is "Charlottesville VA", including "bands" and "wedding" as long tails.

I do recommend you, as a guidance, to take a thorough read of these posts: 
15 SEO Best Practices for Structuring URLs By Rand Fishkin Begginners guide - Chapter 4- Section - Go to the "URL construction guidelines" part.

Hope it's usefull.
GR

[anthonydnelson]

Are you going to have valuable category page at /bands/ or /wedding/ and /wedding/bands/? Using subfolders can be great for filtering in analytics, analyzing indexation as well as for the users who want to view things at a category level.

Consider what makes most sense for your users. Are they looking for a type of band first or by location first? I would imagine that I would want to look in my location first, then move on to the type of band. In this case, you might want to consider building your directory path to be samhillbands.com/charlottesville-va/wedding-bands/ or something similar.

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Brian!

Why not use:

samhillbands.com/wedding-bands-charlottesville-va

It's very simple. Is there a reason for using sub-folders?