In other words the description-of-a-problem will be a page about one type of on-site seo problem that web site owners have on their sites.
There will be any number of such pages inside the /problems/ directory.
Now the problem with such a URL structure is that these pages will be 5 deep. First will be the domain, then the seo directory, then the on-site directory, and so on.
I will say exactly the opposite – the more information you can get into your URL format, the better. That’s true for SEO, for visitors and for your own organisation and sanity. If you have your files nearly organised into folders and sub-folders, Googlebot can learn a lot about the structure of your site and where each page fits in just by looking at the URL. If you have a flat file system with everything straight in the root then that extra information is lost.
In terms of how deep the structure goes, that doesn’t have any impact on SEO. Google might take into account how many ‘clicks’ from the home page you have to go to get to a particular page, but it doesn’t discriminate against pages just because they’re in a subsubsubfolder.
I can tell you that shorter urls tend to rank better than long ones. Anyway no too short either.
An url of the form domain.com/category/article-title
would be best in my opinion.
The category part should be your keyword family. What is that you might say? If you have a list of 20-30 keywords / queries try to make 4-5 big families which will include every keyword in your list. Like 5 buckets. Those big kw families will be your categories.
Interesting. I asked because I had read somewhere (can’t remember where) that material on websites should not be buried too deeply for SEO purposes. I guess I will keep the extra directory structure and just lay things out the way it is easiest for me to keep things organized and see how it goes.
The pages I have in mind are not for SEO purposes anyway but are rather help pages for a product I hope to develop but they may get picked up by the search engines and I wanted to get as much SEO juice as I could from anything like that happening. But if they don’t make it highly in the search engines…not a huge deal. At least regarding these particular pages.
The “too deeply buried” you have read about refers to how many clicks from index is a page located… This influences the distribution of PR in your internal structure.
I will try to explain this:
If you have PR 3 on your index, / , the first page that is loaded when your domain is typed, and on that index page you have links to lets say 3 categories ( Kat1, Kat2, Kat3 ), those 3 categories will usually have PR 2, as they are passed link juice from the index. Any pages which are linked from the 3 categories like [noparse]www.domain.com/kat1/page.html[/noparse] will have PR 1, as it is 2 clicks away from /.
I hope this makes sense. Try having all your websites pages accesible in 2 clicks from /, if possible.
yes u r right but i mean to say if your url structure is short then this is more helpful in SEO Prospective. If u want to categories its better for visitors and googlebot to find where is your pages… but i Still Think shorter url is more helpful…
Well, I believe that depth URLs with meaningful words does not create any problem. However if you made depth url with some unusual characters/words which does not mean anything may create problem. Also depth URLs are atleast far better than those Dynamic URLs created with just digits and random characters.
Very broadly speaking, page google kudos works from the deepest back to the index page and in that respect it will always support the site as a whole. Personally, I’d find a way to go broader rather then deeper and limit my depth in general to 3 levels. If nothing else, 5 levels will make navigating for a new visistor dificult, which increases your chances of losing him.
At the end of the day, ranking a bit higher is pointless if your visitors leave without “purchase”.
My friend you are right but i think if your url structure is short then this is more helpful in SEO. Url must be relevent to the site and shorter url is more helpful
Generally doesn’t matter but if it is a very long URL-s, this starts to look spammy, so avoid having more than 10 words in the URL (3 or 4 for the domain name itself and 6 or 7 for the rest of address is acceptable).