Category VS Post

[batot_mahmoud]

I use my website for providing an international service, I made my URL structure website

https://example.com/destinations/africa/country

destinations is a category and Africa is a sub-category

I made an article for every continent and inserted all the continent's country manually, the page url structure is

https://example.com/destinations/africa/

and the continent category URL is

https://example.com/category/destinations/africa/

I'm thinking about removing the continent article and strip the category Word from URL, So i will use the subcategories directly on the same link

https://example.com/destinations/africa/

what's your advice about removing the continent article and using the sub categories instead? is it a good idea to use the child category as a reference for the internal links? what do you think about keeping both of them (child category and the Article)?

in case you suggest to use the child category , Is removing Category word may hurt my SEO?

[Justen_H]

Hey,

The rule of fist is that readability is the most important aspect of your URL. The /category/ folder does not add to relevance, neither does it make the URL easier to read. I would therefore say it's better to remove the folder. I guess you don't use the /category/ folder as a page itself and have the visitor land on /destinations/ right away?

As long as the content on your /africa/ page is valueable and unique, I wouldn't remove that.

I hope this answers your question!