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Url-delimiter vs. SEO
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Hi all,
Our customer is building a new homepage. Therefore, they use pages, which are generated out of a special module. Like a blog-page out of the blog-module (not only for blogs, also for lightboxes).
For that, the programmer is using an url-delimiter for his url-parsing. The url-delimiter is for example a /b/ or /s/. The url would look like this:
www.test.ch/de/blog/b/an-article
www.test.ch/de/s/management-coaching
Does the url-delimiter (/b/ or /s/ in the url) have a negative influence on SEO? Should we remove the /b/ or /s/ for a better seo-performance
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
Greetings. Samuel
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Hi Samuel,
In general, URLs should not contain any unnecessary folders (delimiters). In your first example, the /b/ is not needed since you've already got a /blog/ folder. In the second example, that page appears to be main site content, you don't need any additional folders unless they're specifying a general topic under which you'll be adding more specific pages.
You're also burying your keywords a one step further into the URL than is needed. Google says they don't put too much weight on URL structure, but in my experiences, well planned and logical URL structures perform better. It's not going to have a huge impact on your rankings, but it will help to some degree.
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