Need help with Site Structure & Permalinks?

VenomS · Apr 25, 2020

Hey Guys,
How is everyone doing?
I have started working on a new project which is basically an ecommerce site with a blog attached. My last project only consisted of a blog so there were plenty of guides about the permalink and Silo structure. Now there are a lot things that are confusing me.

1. I want my Blog Urls to be "https://www.samplesite.com/blog/blog-category/post"

I want a physical silo for the site so should I go for permalink edit to add /blog/ base and then edit blog-categories to add SEO optimized content or should I redirect categories too?
How are you guys achieving such structure while using Wordpress?

2. I want my shop URLs to be "https://www.samplesite.com/product-categories/product"

I have no idea how to achieve this. Most of the guides don't recommend removing shop base, some recommend plugins, others gives a code to add to function.php. Breadcrumbs creates another hassle and redirecting the category page mess up with widgets. How are you guys doing it? Seriously, I have been racking my head for a week and finally decided to ask you guys. Help me out here.

Most of you guys have looked at a post about physical silos here that went viral. I am trying to implement that. Now some problems arise in doing that with ecommerce sites
1. Should I physical silo products and posts separately or should I interlink them too? (As mostly seen)
2. What is your take on internal linking strategy?

Thank you,

ynot · Apr 26, 2020

Hey

VenomS said:
1. I want my Blog Urls to be ""

I want a physical silo for the site so should I go for permalink edit to add /blog/ base and then edit blog-categories to add SEO optimized content or should I redirect categories too?
How are you guys achieving such structure while using Wordpress?

I will not dig technically into answering this. I'll just say it is better to go with /blog/category/post instead of just /category/post/ in your case.

VenomS said:
2. I want my shop URLs to be ""

I have no idea how to achieve this. Most of the guides don't recommend removing shop base, some recommend plugins, others gives a code to add to function.php. Breadcrumbs creates another hassle and redirecting the category page mess up with widgets. How are you guys doing it? Seriously, I have been racking my head for a week and finally decided to ask you guys. Help me out here.

Also correct, remove the /shop/ base.

VenomS said:
1. Should I physical silo products and posts separately or should I interlink them too? (As mostly seen)
2. What is your take on internal linking strategy?

I did not understand exactly what you mean, but here is the best interlinking strategy:

Product pages should link to product categories or other products in the same category.
Blog posts should link to blog categories, product pages or product categories. May link to other blog posts as well in some rare cases.

In two words - your products should not link to the blog. Just add a side link to the blog (header or footer) and forget about it. It will get enough power to pass link juice to your money pages when you are linking from it.

Unfortunately I rarely use Wordpress and WooCommerce for me is a complete sh*t, so I am not technically prepared to answer you on how to do it.

Dig in Google, when I have problems with WP, I usually find a solution within 10-15 minutes after some testing.

VenomS · Apr 26, 2020

ynot said:
Also correct, remove the /shop/ base.

How? Woocommerce recommends not to remove anything. people are either using plugins or codes to stop mixing of pages and category pages. This thing is confusing for me. Can you recommend me a good tested method to do this?

ynot · Apr 26, 2020

VenomS said:
How? Woocommerce recommends not to remove anything. people are either using plugins or codes to stop mixing of pages and category pages. This thing is confusing for me. Can you recommend me a good tested method to do this?

No, sorry. As I mentioned I am not quite familiar with WooCommerce and I might just mislead you.

I know that WooCommerce are saying that you should avoid this and they are more than correct from a developers point of view. I was talking regarding the SEO, it is better for your store to be structured like site.com/category/sub-category/product, instead of site.com/shop/category/sub-category/product

VenomS · Apr 27, 2020

Bumping as the issue persists.

VenomS · Apr 27, 2020

I managed to get a make-shift solution. You can check here. But I dont know if there are any duplicate pages to be redirected, so if someone can help me out here in this section.
Here is the demo site
https://s-qrtf4jwq9266.eu1.wpsandbox.org/blog/blog-post-cat-one/
"demo" is the username and password if anyone wants to check the backend

ynot · Apr 27, 2020

Hi, yes, you have some duplicated content. Example:

/shop/test-category-two/test-product-two/
/test-category-two/test-product-two/
/test-product-two/
/shop/test-product-two/

VenomS · Apr 27, 2020

ynot said:
Hi, yes, you have some duplicated content. Example:

/shop/test-category-two/test-product-two/

/test-category-two/test-product-two/

/test-product-two/

/shop/test-product-two/

How to deal with them now?

ynot · Apr 27, 2020

VenomS said:
How to deal with them now?

Once again, I am not the person to ask about WooCommerce, but found a plugin that claims it does exactly this. You may test it. Search for "Permalink Manager for WooCommerce".

VenomS · Apr 27, 2020

ynot said:
Once again, I am not the person to ask about WooCommerce, but found a plugin that claims it does exactly this. You may test it. Search for "Permalink Manager for WooCommerce".

That one is already installed.

VenomS · May 3, 2020

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VenomS said:
Hey Guys,
How is everyone doing?
I have started working on a new project which is basically an ecommerce site with a blog attached. My last project only consisted of a blog so there were plenty of guides about the permalink and Silo structure. Now there are a lot things that are confusing me.

1. I want my Blog Urls to be "https://www.samplesite.com/blog/blog-category/post"

I want a physical silo for the site so should I go for permalink edit to add /blog/ base and then edit blog-categories to add SEO optimized content or should I redirect categories too?
How are you guys achieving such structure while using Wordpress?
2. I want my shop URLs to be "https://www.samplesite.com/product-categories/product"

I have no idea how to achieve this. Most of the guides don't recommend removing shop base, some recommend plugins, others gives a code to add to function.php. Breadcrumbs creates another hassle and redirecting the category page mess up with widgets. How are you guys doing it? Seriously, I have been racking my head for a week and finally decided to ask you guys. Help me out here.

Most of you guys have looked at a post about physical silos here that went viral. I am trying to implement that. Now some problems arise in doing that with ecommerce sites
1. Should I physical silo products and posts separately or should I interlink them too? (As mostly seen)
2. What is your take on internal linking strategy?

Thank you,

This will be your best friend:
https://permalinkmanager.pro/

VenomS · May 7, 2020

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