Question on structuring URLs in a Drupal CMS - Adverse SEO or Analytics impacts?

[Patrick_at_Nebraska_Medicine]

Hello Moz Community,

We're building out a health system (think a bunch of hospitals and clinics etc.) website on Drupal for the first time. Nebraskamed.com is  our domain.

Because we're using nodes instead of pages, our URL structure can pretty much be whatever we think makes sense.

Our proposal is to drop /blog/ and related terms from the URL structure, because it doesn't really mean anything to the user. Instead, we'd use the service line "cancer" for example, followed by the name of the blog post or document.

Example: nebraskamed.com/cancer/10-bone-cancer-myths

Do you see any red flags (perhaps with SEO or Analytics for example) to what I'm proposing? domain name/service line/blog-post-name

If so, do you have a URL structure you advise?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

I agree with Anthony, the new structure seems to be perfectly fine to me as well in terms of SEO & Analytics.

[anthonydnelson]

Essentially it sounds like you simply want to eliminate a /blog/ directory and instead use a keyword rich category slug as a directory for each article. That URL structure is just fine. You will still be able to filter your analytics by category performance and the URL is easy to understand as a user.