Best way to structure urls wordpress and Yoast?

[scott315]

I am using Wordpress and Yoast. I have Parent pages and child pages. Yoast recommends you have the keyword in the url.

For the parent page I have the city name in the url. Question is, should the child pages also have the city name in the url or would that be considered keyword stuffing?

Here is the current structure.

http://forestparkdental.info/st-louis-dental-services/restorative-dentistry/inlays-and-onlays

So didn't know if should have the end of that url as /restorative-dentistry-st-louis /inlays-and-onlays-st louis

since those are separate pages and Yoast and Moz plugin doesn't give you the Green light in  in all areas unless you do it like this?

Thanks Scott

[DonnaDuncan]

Hi Scott,

It's confusing isn't it. I think the way you have it set up now is overkill. Of course every search engine is different, but certainly Google is smart enough to know that if you have "st louis" in the directory name, you don't also need to use it in the file name. Also, shorter is better. It's easier to remember and more impactful.

The green lights signify conformance to guidelines only, not rules that must be followed.

Hope that helps.

Donna

[scott315]

Ok so would you suggest just using a dead link with # symobol in Wordpress for Dental Services and then also for the sub categories to shorten the link?

Referring to the dental services tab here  http://forestparkdental.info/

Otherwise you get a long url but we also want to shoot for those sub categories as pages for keyword targeting?

Thanks for the help

[DonnaDuncan]

Don't understand what you mean by a "dead link with # symbol".

Regardless, I misspoke. What you have with your current structure is NOT overkill. (I was looking at the line below, what you were considering as an alternative, when commenting.)

You only have "st-louis" once in your current structure. I say leave it as is and don't incorporate the city name again in subfolders and file names.

You should include St. Louis in the page copy and meta data and, from your example above, I can see you're doing that. You're on the right path.

[scott315]

Thanks Donna, I just mean like having a title instead of a actual page so it was not clickable which would shorten the url like      General Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry etc... but wanted those as pages so just going to keep them now.

So even though MOZ made give a grade of B for the page since the city will not be in the URL your saying Google should still see it from the parent item...

Thanks for your input

[DonnaDuncan]

Yes.