What are the advantages and disadvantages of having multiple folders in URL?
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Example:
http://www.domain.com.ph/property-for-sale/city/area/
(3 folders)
Would it be great if we'll just use http://www.domain.com.ph/property-for-sale-area-city/ (All pages will be under 1 folder)?
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks Vadim!
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Similar questions asked before with great responses:
http://moz.com/community/q/url-length
http://moz.com/community/q/maximum-length-of-the-url-for-seo-75-115
Also too many of pages in one directory using: http://www.domain.com.ph/property-for-sale-area-city/ method could lead to server issues, depending on your type of server. But I mean this is if you are creating thousands of urls to one directory, so might not be relevant
Hope this helps
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As the length of an URL is a relevant ranking factor (short ist better) you just have to check which one is the short one... see this link for actual ranking factors (0.16 as to the Spearman Correlation)
This statement does not cover technical issues of course...
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