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Hi,

Me and the development team are having a heated discussion about one of the more important thing in life, i.e. URL structures on our site.

Let's say we are creating a AirBNB clone, and we want to be found when people search for

apartments new york.

As we have both have houses and apartments in all cities in the U.S it would make sense for our url to at least include these, so

clone.com/Appartments/New-York

but the user are also able to filter on price and size. This isn't really relevant for google, and we all agree on clone.com/Apartments/New-York should be canonical for all apartment/New York searches. But how should the url look like for people having a price for max 300$ and 100 sqft?

clone.com/Apartments/New-York?price=30&size=100

or (We are using Node.js so no problem)

clone.com/Apartments/New-York/Price/30/Size/100

The developers hate url parameters with a vengeance, and think the last version is the preferable one and most user readable, and says that as long we use canonical on everything to clone.com/Apartments/New-York it won't matter for god old google.

I think the url parameters are the way to go for two reasons. One is that google might by themselves figure out that the price parameter doesn't matter (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1235687?hl=en) and also it is possible in webmaster tools to actually tell google that you shouldn't worry about a parameter.

We have agreed to disagree on this point, and let the wisdom of Moz decide what we ought to do. What do you all think?

I have a question about the use of hreflang.

In country one i have for instance

web.one/BlueWidget    web.one/YellowWidgetIn country (and language) two I have   web.two/Widget In other words, the distinction between yellow and blue isn't there in country two. My best try would beweb.one/BlueWidget  two" href="<a>http://</a>web.two/Widget" />web.one/YellowWidget  <link rel="<a>alternate" hreflang="two" href="<a>http://</a>web.two/Widget" /></link rel="<a> <link rel="<a>canonical" href="web.one/BlueWidget"/></link rel="<a>web.two/Widget   <link rel="<a>alternate" hreflang="one" href="web.one/BlueWidget" />    </link rel="<a> <link rel="<a>canonical" href="web.two/Widget "/></link rel="<a>So pointing both blue and yellow to the Widget in country two, and pointing widget in country two to Blue widget in country one, as BlueWidget is what I would prefer to promote if I had to choose.What do people think? Is this the way to go? If so, why? If not, why?And is it actually worth bothering with? Will country two get a boost because I get links to country one?

Regards

My best Guess is that when you do the Research in the keyword tool you do not have on "exact" matching. It is often quite silly how large the numbers get if you don't do that.

The ctr of 9% on #1 keyword wouldn't be unusual if there is a Heavy contested key.word With ads above the search result

Yes, but you will only get the keyword in the account. So if you have a phrase match on "blue", the customer search "blue widget" it will end up as blue in the link.

Well, my best guess without having the site is based on the name of the file  /cookie_usage.php . I assume you check for cookie support, and since googlebot doesn't have that they get redirected to the page saying you need cookies

For historical reason my entire site (https://www.banknorwegian.no ) is in )HTTPS. I am trying to use opensiteexplorer to get a linkprofile. But then I only get the links that point to www.banknorwegian.no (without https://) .

Is it possible to use it for https pages? Also, I assume some of the same problem arise when I use the keyword difficulty tool. The pages I have show up in the result, but they have a Page Authority that has to be made from just links to the http version.

My best Guess is that when you do the Research in the keyword tool you do not have on "exact" matching. It is often quite silly how large the numbers get if you don't do that.

The ctr of 9% on #1 keyword wouldn't be unusual if there is a Heavy contested key.word With ads above the search result