URL Structure Category Pages -Current Moz Friday-

[_Heiko_]

Hello,
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​regarding #15 of the last moz friday I have a question: http://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls

What would you prefer if the lenght of the URL will be still under 60 characters and you have an example like this:

Let's call it a specific page in a category. As I like the old shoe examples: You have a page about red shoes in your shoe category.

Which URL would you prefer:

a) www.mydomain.com/shoes/red-shoe

b) www.mydomain.com/shoes/red

Personally I would prefer a) or would you already consider this as spammy? My real example is not that trivial like the shoe example and the categories will be in plural and the specific pages always in singular (like in the example shoes vs shoe).

c) would be to put it independently from the side structure on www.mydomain.com/red-shoe - but personally I have the experience that a) or b) will help the rankings of the category page if you have the specific pages in the same subfolder.

What's your opinion on this?

[Alick300]

Hi,

I will go with option 'a' & I don't think It would be consider as spammy.

Thanks

[Sandicliffe]

This is a great question - I'm really intrigued to see what people think on this.

I'm having a very similar issue with my site. Currently I am completely re-structuring the sites URL's ready for a rebuild.

My thoughts are that with option a). its much easier to target keywords better in the URL (if this is really necessary), but then I would also be concerned that it might seem a bit spammy.

with option b). its a shorter, more concise URL without any repetition (which is better for SEO within itself), but then it doesn't flow as well (when reading the URL) in terms of describing what the page is about.

[DennisSeymour]

Option A. I wont even worry about it after that.

Your time is more important so putting it to work for the other more important parts of your SEO campaign is better.

I would worry about/focus on the content of that category page instead.