SEF URL question for category

Marketing
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Hi there,

I am creating a new questions and answers website for a local town. I would like to ask what would be the best way to create the category URL structure.

I have categories including:

Arts and Humanities
Beauty and Style
Business and Finance

Should I create the URLs such as:

arts-and-humanities-in-xtown
or
xtown-arts-and-humanities

I’m thinking of using the name of the categories as:

“XTOWN Arts & Humanities”
or
“Arts & Humanities in XTOWN”

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks

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“xtown-arts-and-humanities” feels slightly less cumbersome to me, as a potential visitor to your site.

If you’re worrying about search engines, it will make no difference either way. Design the site for humans, and the search engines will be fine.

3

Thanks for the reply.

Do you think I should add “questions” to the end of the categories.

For example

“xtown-arts-and-humanities-questions”?

Thanks!

4

I’d say not. IMHO, the shorter the better. The addition of “questions” doesn’t add anything in terms of helping visitors orient themselves.

You might find this article helpful:

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I see, that makes sense… Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

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I agree with @TechnoBear, the first name sounds best to me too, but if the site domain is the name of the town, I think you could skip the XTOWN in the category names.

On the other hand, bookmarks and the OS activity bar buttons are named after the page title, so the XTOWN-category name could be good in the page’s title tag.

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