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Been trying to find an answer to this for some time, so I hope someone can lend me a hand..

I've started building out my casino website Nerdybet, which will list regulated gaming vendors within each US state. A part of the idea  is to create a high level web directory of legal betting sites.

Now, say I want to list all legal casinos within a specific US state. What's the most search engine friendly way to build out the hierarchy?

To clarify, this will be the main casino directory page: https://www.nerdybet.com/gambling-sites-directory

Based on that, I can now pick either:

a) Nerdybet.com/gambling-sites-directory/stateX
b)Nerdybet.com/stateX

Which method would you say is best? And why so?

Thank you.

Thanks man. See, that's the "gist" I've been getting from reading about this elsewhere as well. It appears that complicating things by adding subfolders is unnecessary, unless one operates a big online sales platform with large inventories.

I will go with the solution you suggested.