silo question

amandine said:

Yes a silo structure must look like this : site.com/category/postname
and if you have subcategories site.com/category/subcategory/postname

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Nargil said:

This has nothing to do with silo. This is just site structuring. Silo is something completely different and this term has been thrown around here randomly for years now.

It's merely a personal preference how you structure your site. Some people like to go 3 levels deep, some just 2. Check what your competitors are doing and copy them.

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blacksharks said:

i'm trying to copy the wirecutter they seem to structure there website, but when you get to the end of the categorie post: it shows as : site.com/reviews/postname
but the main structure is site.com/categorie/sub-categorie/ but when you click on the link it shows as .../reviews/postname

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Nargil said:

See? It doesn't even make that much sense and it works perfectly.

What have we learned? Stop over-analyzing things.

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blacksharks said:

i'm just trying to structure my website better and make google understand more what's about, i already built links to my previouss link structure wich is just site.com/postname, what i'm trying to do now is site.com/categorie/subcategorie/postname, i don't know if this will affect my previouss seo for some time or i don't know, as they are going to be shown as a breadcrumb on google
site.com categorie > subcategorie

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Nargil said:

If the site isn't new and it's already ranking somewhat, then do not change your URL structure.

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blacksharks said:

the site is progressing on some keywords but not ranking very high, but i got links from pbn's and stuff, what should i do about that ?

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Nargil said:

Don't try to fix something that does not require fixing. Unless the URL structure is really tragic, it doesn't matter. Especially if it's a single niche site.

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blacksharks said:

it's a multiple niche site that comes down into home improvement, that's why i need google to know my niche and add more topic relevency but still i'm afraid that it will be bad for me

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Nargil said:

Don't try to fix something that does not require fixing. Unless the URL structure is really tragic, it doesn't matter. Especially if it's a single niche site.

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blacksharks said:

will a 301 redirect recover that for me ?

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