Site & Link Structure Opinions Wanted

[AndySolo]

Could you take a look at my site and help me optimize it.

[crazyjayd]

just quickly, I would not have two mention of your keywords in the url:

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/history/1990-1999/1999-pittsburgh-steelers-roster/

I would almost think this would be a better structure, even though I'm not a fan of using "roster" again, but it makes sense  from a user's standpoint.

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/rosters

this page should show all the years groupings.

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/rosters/1990-1999

This page shows all the year links

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/rosters/1990-1999/1999

Roster info.

This:

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/history/2010-present/

should be
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/history/2010-2019 that's just a consistency thing.

Same with this:

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/about-pittsburgh-steelers-roster/

should be

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/about

I wouldn't repeat the Keywords in the title twice as well.

Put some more content in it, and see how that goes.

Hope this helps, and Go Steelers!

[AndySolo]

Ok, I did make most of the changes you've suggested.

I changed /history/ to:

/roster-history/

only because the site is going to have a lot of historic content about the decades, years, teams, and players.

I have a question about this URL:

http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/roster-history/1990-1999/1999-pittsburgh-steelers-roster/

Would Google penalize me for having repeated the keywords in the URL? why does it makes sense to shorten this URL?

[crazyjayd]

I actually did the same thing a few years back, on a exact match domain. I got slaughtered.

If you can use different keywords in the page url, it would be best. I would even go as far as to say, putting a .html behind it. ex: 1999.html

or

/1990-1999/1999-playoff-run.html or 14-wins-3-loses.html or 1999-season.html

[AndySolo]

Ok, about .html

is that something I just add manually to the permalink? or should I use some type of plugin? I use wordpress.

I like the idea of 1999-season.

The site is named Pittsburgh Steelers Roster (maybe a mistake but that's ok)

My page titles are "2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster"

So the page title tags look like

"2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster | Pittsburgh Steelers Roster"

This is going to be perceived as keyword stuffing, correct?

So, I should come up with a more creative page title, correct?

[crazyjayd]

for the .html, just use permalinks.

Use yoast, so you can change the titles. Just do the 2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster, you don't need to repeat the site name again.

I don't think you need to come up with different titles. It is what it is in reality.

[AndySolo]

nice, that answers a lot. You've been a huge help.