Category Pages

[Rich-DC]

I'm debating on what the best category structure is for a recipe website and was looking to get some advice. It's a recipe/travel/health fitness blog but recipes reign on the site.

Should it be:

Option A

website name\recipe\type of recipe\URL of specific recipe

or

Option B

website name\type of recipe\url of specific recipe (and just cut out the 'recipe' category name)

Any advise would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

There's a great URL structure resource from Moz located here, as well as a great information architecture resource here. I suggest checking it out.

Generally it's better to be shorter with your URL structure. I would use option B if it were my choosing, because you could easily making it...

www.domain.com/italian-recipes/chicken-parmesan

Otherwise you are doing...

www.domain.com/recipes/italian/chicken-parmesan

You create a deeper page level with option A, making pages "less" important and farther away from the domain, which is the most important aspect of your URL.

Keep pages and crawl depth as shallow as possible so that pages don't get buried and lost in the crawl. My opinion, go option B, but also review the resources above.

Hope this helps! Good luck!
Patrick