Url Structure Help

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voyger

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I have an Ecommerce site and i am wondering what url structure would be better for seo. For example should a site selling shirts have the category page as colorfulshirts.Rom/shop-by-tyle/green-shirts or colorfulshirts.Rom/green-shirts ... with the keyword being green shirts, which would be better or is there not much of a difference? thanks (excuse the .rom as i am a new member and cant post links.. thanks)

 

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B.O.S.S

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It doesn't really make much difference.

Just dont have the URL's too long and totally irrelevant.

 

Dan Da Man

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B.O.S.S said:

It doesn't really make much difference.

Just dont have the URL's too long and totally irrelevant.

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I would assume it would be a little better to have just site.com/keyword correct?

 

ClThis

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Domain.com/category/product

Domain.com/keyword

 

t0m3313

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Dan Da Man said:

I would assume it would be a little better to have just site.com/keyword correct?

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Yes I would second you there, but I think that would be really confusing if you have a load of sites on a ecommerce site.

 

the_demon

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You should do it as follows:

Code:

http://www.my-ecommerce-site.com/product-type/product-name-MODEL-NUMBER.html

 

Fathom

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I personally would have a structure that matches the breadcrumbs.

If your breadcrumbs are: Mens > Casual Shirts > Linen Shirts > Green
Then make your url as: mysite.com/mens/casual-shirts/linen-shirts/green

The above structure makes it user friendly and the search engines will see the keywords, now make sure you have a good link structure and build better links than your competitors.

 

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mark0v

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what fathom said. although my recent (limited) experiences seem to indicate that this isn't nearly as important as it used to be.

 

Dan Da Man

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• Dec 14, 2011

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the_demon said:

You should do it as follows:

Code:

http://www.my-ecommerce-site.com/product-type/product-name-MODEL-NUMBER.html

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Hmm... What if the main category was style and you had a subcategory as green shirts and the keyword you were trying to rank is green shirts. So, www.mysite.com/style-shirt/green-shirts.html

I am assuming that would be okay?