URL structure with dash or slash

[chrisyu78]

Hi, everyone

Basically I am editing my website page's URL for SEO Optimisation and I am not sure which URL structure is best for SEO. The main different is the sign ( dash or slash ) before the product-code. HERE ARE TWO EXAMPLE

1. www.example.com/long-tail-keyword-product-code

2. www.example.com/long-tail-keyword/product-code

To get more idea of my page, here is one of the product from my website : http://www.okeus.co.uk/pro_view-3.html

My website is selling my own product, as a result the only keyword can be found was the name of the product and I separated different design by different code.

Any experts who are willing help would be very much appreciated.

[SolveWebMedia]

Hi Chris,

How about category / products name ?

Eg http://www.okeus.co.uk/womens-rings/simple-gold-ring/

Also get a SSL. Helps with rankings and buyer confidence.

Consider WordPress or Shopify. Your URL's currently look like this: http://www.okeus.co.uk/product-3.html?type=p_cats&type_val=3

I hope that helps?

[chrisyu78]

Hi, thank you for the respons, I actually did get the SSL in the other server, but my programmer feel more comfortable of work on this one so we haven’t change it.

for the URL, the product name is actually the long-tail-keyword and I would like to skip the category in this case because I want the URL to keep as shop as possibe. Even I use your suggestion, I will still need to put product code on the URL to spearte different design under one category.

By the way, do you know what is the different of using  slash or dash on URL ?

thank you

[Yasin__Khan]

Hi,

My upvote for slash!

Use domain/category/product

This way, you can rank your category sites and your product site.

Have a nice day