How would you address these URLS

[ATP]

Hey Mozzers, long time no post.

Just a quick one for you regarding URLS, this is an example of a url on a site

https://www.thisismyurl.co.uk/products/spacehoppers/special-spacehopper.html

Many of these pages are getting flagged for having a url that is too long. The target of this page is "special spacehoppers". Should i be concerned with the url being to long given my keyword is at the end?

Would this be a suitable idea?

https://www.thisismyurl.co.uk/p/spacehoppers/special.html

1. Would changing products to p be worthwhile? It would remove length from nearly all urls but would require a site wide re-direct.

2)Would removing the "spacehoppers" bit from the url be worth it? Yes it would shorten the url but would also remove the exact keyword from the url which could be detrimental to rankings.

[Andy-Halliday]

I am not a huge fan of changing urls once Google has indexed them, to make them more appealing you could appealing so it look something like:

https://www.thisismyurl.co.uk/ > spacehoppers > special-spacehopper - this is a pretty easy fix and something I would recommend on all eccomerce sites.

Also there is so much more you can do with Rich Snippets that would make a difference  https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/products

[ATP]

Can I clarify a few things Andy,

Firstly this is a sub-category page im talking about not a product, all our products are myurl.co.uk/product.html

"https://www.thisismyurl.co.uk/ > spacehoppers > special-spacehopper - this is a pretty easy fix and something I would recommend on all eccomerce sites"

Is this a suggestion to remove the /product/ section?

Rich snippets are a later planned project