In order to improve SEO with silos'urls, should i move my posts from blog directory to pages'directories ?
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Now, my website is like this:
So I use silos urls. I'd like to improve my ranking a little bit more.
Is it better to change my urls like this:
- myurl.com/category1/blog/mypost.html or maybe myurl.com/category1/mypost.html
- myurl.com/category1/mypage.html
Thanks
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It's not particularly important. "Blog" doesn't offer any sort of semantic importance to the content underneath. Singular and dense category landing pages are the goal with this strategy. That's more important than creating a URL distinction between your blog and static content.
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I'll jump in even though you didn't ask
Really I think it makes the URI unnecessarily long.
While thinking about your site in terms of 'levels' the URI doesn't play that big a part (if all the posts are linked to from the home page for example that's still a second level page [for the most part]). However it is located at site/blog/category/page in the URI, which has at least one unnecessary directory.
Also, as a personal preference, I'd rather call my blog 'news', 'updates' or 'notices' in the URI.
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I'm going to assume you don't already have many links into these pages since you're going to be messing around with them. If they do (and really even if they don't) make sure and set up the redirects correctly.
Site structure really depends a lot on the content that's on the site.
'example.com/category/title' is quite a good way of doing it.
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I agree with Daniel here - its what in the pages that count more than the link structure.
Daniel Why would you say he should he ditch the blog in the path - if he has a blog he has a blog ??
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Ditch "blog" in the URL entirely unless your model specifically keeps the blog under a separate directory as it currently is. Just ensure the category landing pages are syndicating content or provides some method of navigation that's relevant to the category.
Your existing model duplicates that landing page, so it's preferable to go: myurl.com/category1/mypost.html or myurl.com/blog/mypost.html.
This is really more of an accessibility and navigational issue, rather than SEO. It was big a few years ago, but I'm betting its effects will be negligible. It's just nice to have these sort of things organized, especially before you start a link building campaign where a small mistake in redirection could really hurt. I feel your time may be better spent on content strategy rather than PR sculpting.
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