Website URL Structures - Which does Google prefer or does it matter?
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Which URL structure does google prefer..............OR DOES IT REALLY MATTER?
Option A
www.example.com/services/service#1 - this is the default that wordpress uses
Option B
www.example.com/service#1
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Thanks CMC! Others I have discussed with said it doesn't matter and that their is no "preferred" structure.
One person said:
Google uses urls only at the spidering stage and then reintroduces them when composing the SERPs but the "machine" does not use them at all - your pages are known by an internal number, not the url. As long as the urls are easily spiderable the urls do not matter
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SEOmoz officially favors www.domain.com/category/subcategory/product.html -- see http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/url. However, depending on the depth of your categories, that can get ridiculous really fast.
In a recent webinar, I believe Everett Sizemore said he prefers www.domain.com/subcategory.html -- see http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues.
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Thanks Irving.
I am currently using this version www.example.com/service#1
I'm having a site migrated to wordpress and noticed that their default was for every service listed under the main navigation title (services) to have /services/service#1, etc.
I'm having to change the wordpress default so my urls don't change. Just wanted to make sure that the version I am using now is safe
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it doesn't really matter. just don't go multiple levels deep and don't repeat keywords in the url.
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