How to structure sub catergorys
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due to out database each sub category has to be assigned to a category. i.e. /abc would have to be assigned to the category ''letters' in the url structure; so...it would be www.example.com/letters/abc .
The question is does is matter which way round the category and sub are arranged? Assuming we are optimizing for ''abc' , does it matter if we structured as;
Thanks in advance.
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It's best to have the keywords that you're targeting as close to domain as possible although it wouldn't matter when you have just two short folder names such as /letters/abc.
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