Flat site anatomy & SEO

[Zygoma]

Good morning from Wetherby UK

Ok imagine this scenario. You ask the developers to design a site where “offices to let” is
on level two of a sites hierachy and so the URL would look like this:

http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/[B]office-to-let[/B]
But Yikes when it goes live it ends up like this

http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/html/left-links/residential/[B]office-to-let[/B]

Is a fix to this a URL re - write? Or is the only fix relocating the office to let content
further up the site structure?

Any insights welcome

[Stevie_D]

Any developers that have a publicly visible hierarchy of \html\left-links\ need to to be shot at the earliest opportunity!

In terms of SEO, it makes no noticeable difference where in the folder structure a page lives, as long as it is indexed under a single URL. For usability purposes, you might want to use mod_rewrite and a canonical tag to give the preferred URL.

[Zygoma]

Thanks Stevie