Link Juice

[arango20]

Do you guys think having a guest post close to the root domain has more link juice that being in subfolders?

example.com/123  vs example.com/nov/123

Both pages have the same amount of internal links and both pages don't have external links

[Dalerio-Consulting]

It will depend on the subdirectory structure. Generally, it is suggested for the post to be directly after the domain.

Generally, the subdirectory is used for categories. I see it as a keyword opportunity: If you think that the keyword of the category can help the optimization of the post and ranking, then you can use the category subdirectory freely.

For example, if you are running a course site, and you'll be posting a course on "Python", then "www.site.com/course/python/" would be a more optimized URL than "www.site.com/python/" as you are targeting people who want to find a python course. However, I usually refrain from using the subdirectory structure due to the different targeting between posts.

Daniel Rika - Dalerio Consulting
https://dalerioconsulting.com/
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