RO,

This is a great article:

https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls

See:

#6

Shorter URLs are, generally speaking, preferable. You don't need to take this to the extreme, and if your URL is already less than 50-60 characters, don't worry about it at all. But if you have URLs pushing 100+ characters, there's probably an opportunity to rewrite them and gain value.

I tend to not have a category in my URL and see this practice most of the time when surfing around.

Also, see this article:

https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-url-permalink/

See:

Should I use the category in my permalink structure?

If your domain name is nice and short and you use short, yet descriptive category names, you can easily include a category in your permalink structure which can benefit your website, but beware: if you end up with a lengthy slug and category name, it will make sharing the URL more difficult and won’t have much added value in Google.

If you decide to use categories in your permalink structure, make sure that you only select one category per post. For some more information regarding using categories in your permalink structure, I advise you to watch the following video by Matt on this section.

If you have several articles pertaining to the same topic then consider making the best one the "Cornerstone Article"

https://yoast.com/what-is-cornerstone-content/

"Cornerstone content plays a significant role in any SEO strategy. It can be rather hard to rank for search terms that are very popular. A cornerstone approach could help you tackle those competitive search terms. If you write a lot of articles about similar blog posts, you need to tell Google which one is the most important. Otherwise, you’ll be competing with your content for a place in the search results. If you provide the proper internal linking structure between your posts, you can show Google which article is the most important."

Hi,

Without diving in and doing a whole SEO breakdown. Here is an example of how I could explain what I would do for my site.

My Corner Strone Article:

21 Tips on How to Build a Good Homepage Design

Permalink: /web-design/21-tips-homepage-design

Category: web-design

I choose "not" to add my categories to my permalinks to make them short. The shorter the URL the easier to remember and the better you rank. In this example, I added a category.

On the URLs, try not to use "Stop Words" which are "Of, the, that, is, etc."

Additional articles linking back to the cornerstone article.

1. Title: What Makes a Good Website Header Design?

Permalink: /web-design/good-website-header-design

2. Title: Example of Website Design Banner Ads

Permalink: /web-design/website-design-banner-ads

3. Title: Important Design Elements for a Website Footer

Permalink: /web-design/design-elements-website-footer

Each article would have supporting information which would link back to an overall article.

Make sense?

Hi all,

I think it is first important to look at your category structure. Use categories as main categories and tags as subcategories. If you have 1 post, in 5 different main categories, you will then be duplicated in some cases the same info. I keep all my posts in one main category which I do index and then all the subcategories as (tags) which I have no-index on. Also, Yoast SEO is my favorite plugin. Just plain easy to use.

Hey guys and gals,

I am hiding elements with @media sizes on the mobile experience for this site.

http://prepacademyschools.org/

My question is when hiding elements from mobile, will this have a negative effect on rankings for mobile and or desktop?

Right now it is a hero banner and testimonial.

My interest is because I feel responsive is now working against conversions when it comes to mobile because desktop typically has the same info several times where mobile it can be repetitive and only needed once.

Thanks,