Need help please with url guidelines.
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Hi SEO PROS,
I have a website and I am planing to change all the urls. I need to know what is the right way of making the urls. Here is some information.
We are based in Brooklyn NY and we sell our services to Manhattan clients and Manhattan has few names. NY, NYC, Manhattan and NY. So by looking at my service area I came up with this url. http://www.signsny.com/brooklyn-ny/awnings this is my current url.
http://www.signsny.com/sign-types/awnings-canopies-brooklyn-NYC. This is what I am planning to change it to.
Please guide me to the right direction, so in future I don't have to re-do them again.
Thanks
Abie
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Good Morning,
Is there any way I can check which internal url is getting juice from back links? Is there a way to find out?
Thanks
Abie
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Good morning,
I am changing the url structure because current url brooklyn-ny/awnings is not in a sub folder. brooklyn-ny suppose to be a category. This is the reason why we are changing he url structure. Google recommend sub folder hierarchy. Am I correct?
Thanks
Abie
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Hi Tahir,
I would recommend against making this change actually. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the URLs. I can see that you might be considering doing a restructure that makes the type of product more prominent than the location in the subfolder hierarchy, but it isn't advisable to "stuff" keywords into the rest of the URL, e.g. awnings-canopies-brooklyn-NYC.
The existing structure, from my point of view, looks more professional and should not hinder the site's rankings. What is the reason why you're wanting to make the change?
Cheers,
Jane
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Hi,
When looking to create location-based URL's, it is important to create a structure that you can follow throughout the site. You don't want to create something now, that means you are limited if you wish to expand further down the line.
What you have come up with there is a good URL, but do remember to back this up with a logical page title (Awnings and Canopies in Brooklyn and NYC). You can further add to this by mentioning it int he Meta Description and in the page copy as well.
-Andy
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Here are the few tips that I would like to share with you here with regards to URL creation.
- Keep the URL short long URLs might create problems with regards to indexing.
- Try to make your URL simply and easy as a person can guess what he/she will find on the page.
- Do not use special characters as these are not SEO friendly URL structure.
- Try not to stuff keywords within your URLs
Just keep these few recommendations in mind when creating URLs for your website. I personally don’t see any problem with your current URL structure and creating new URLs and 3019ng old to the new one will lose some of your link juice that might affect your current rankings.
Hope this helps!
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