Extra Sub Directory
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Anything wrong with a URL structure like:
www.mysite.com/process/widgets/red-widgets
Where the DIR: /process/ is completely empty e.g. you get a 404 if you go to www.mysite.com/process/ and it has no content within.
This URL structure was setup before they knew what SEO was...wondering if it's worth the pain the 301 and restructure new URLs or is it ok to leave as is?
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If your rankings are good then I would leave it as it is.. put it on the list of future plans and then change it if you do some major dev work that requires you to change urls
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Our rankings are good. We've got a ton of content we'd have to redirect.
No one is actually hitting /process/ and it's not appearing as a 404 in WMT...someone internally happened to point it out and was wondering if there's any negative implications with Google.
It doesn't appear that there is anything bad happening but just want to be sure.
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I would say it depends what your rankings are like and also how many pages you will need to redirect.
If you leave it as it is you should put some content on the www.mysite.com/process/ page to stop people encoutering the 404, it will make the site more useful
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