Site folder hierarchy 2016 ?
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Hi,
Would you say that based only on the "folder structure" that "somedomain.com/focus-keyword" has better conditions to rank well than "otherdomain.com/general-keyword/focus-keyword" ?
Using Yoast SEO for WordPress when creating automatic XML sitemaps, URLS with subfolders seems to be getting lower priority.
Thanks!
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Thank you Martijn!
/Anders
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Hi,
So based on the sitemaps that are generated by Yoast I wouldn't really care much about it. Deeper pages in the site should always have a lower priority as the closer you get to the homepage the more important they become.
Regarding the folder structure, I would go with the general keyword + focus keywords pages.
Martijn.
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