Optimal URL structure for location-specific pages
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I'm in the middle of revamping a website for a restaurant that has multiple locations and am trying to decide what the best URL/internal link structure would be.
Right now, each restaurant has a single location page, but we are going to add additional pages for catering. Sitewide-linked pages exist for /catering and /locationname. The way I see it, we have two basic options:
Option #1:
Catering page - /locationname/catering/
Option #2:
Catering page - /catering/locationname/
In both cases, there would be links from the /locationname an /catering pages to the location-specific catering pages.
Is either option preferable to the other?
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Thank you both! I appreciate the responses very much!
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I agree with Oleg; either option won't make a significant difference for SEO - but if you plan on fleshing out the individual restaurant content by adding other pages (e.g. /locationname/menu/, /locationname/reviews/) then I would go with the /locationname/catering/ option.
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Don't think either would be different from an SEO standpoint.
i'd go the /catering/locationname/ route for cleanliness/breadcrumb structure. Unless you are going to create other service pages for each location (e.g. /locationname/menu/, /locationname/reviews/), making locations a subcategory of catering would be the way to go (and can list them on the /catering/ page)
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