information architecture

Hello, Assuming that 2 pages have 100% the same internal and external links and the only difference is just the URL itself, please let me know which URL is more SEO-friendly and easier to optimize for Search: homepage.com/category/service/ or homepage.com/service/ for example...

Looking for proven experience in language sites. Can you provide recommendations on which you feel is the best strategy and comment why? 1. Sub-Folder - domain.com/en and domain.com/it/, etc. 2. Sub-Domain - en.domain.com and it.domain.com, etc. 3. ccTLD - domain.com and domain.it, etc. What...