Depth of URLs and SEO

reno_queen

Possible Duplicate: What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth? If you have, lets say, a website to map all the vegetarian local businesses (restaurants, shops, markets, etc.) in the world, which URL format would you choose? http://example.com/restaurant/name/city/country/1234 http://example.com/shop/name/city/1234 http://example.com/market/name/1234

Originally asked by Francisco Costa on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Depends on whether you are trying to rank the leaves or the nodes. I.e. are you going for the "1234" page to be ranked or the "city" one? A deep structure favors the nodes, a flat the leaves. But it all depends on how the whole interlinking is done.

Full answer by john: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/31955 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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