Removing unnecessary categories in Ecommerce

[Stryde]

We're working on a website built in WooCommerce that has 12 products.

Each of the products have URLs like this www.website.com/products/product-name.

We're thinking about removing the /products/ so that they keyword is as close to the left as possible, but came across this page from WooCommerce saying that it could be a bad thing:

http://docs.woothemes.com/document/removing-product-product-category-or-shop-from-the-urls/

Your thoughts? Thanks for the help!

[LesleyPaone]

Remove the products.. it adds no value. What the article is describing is if you have collisions. Like say you have a "page" in wordpress call "ipod" and you also have a product called "ipod" When you remove the category, everything will be like yoursite.com/ipod so if you have a product named the exact name as a page you will have a collision. Just ensure that you do not have this. SEO ultimate plugin can do this, I use it on my blog for the very same thing with no problems. Or you can manually do the rewrites in the htaccess file.

You absolute best bet since you are not dealing with a lot of products, it sounds like it is a small site, is do it in the middle of the night and do a spider from MOZ and see if it picks up errors.