Site structure question
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I'm currently working on a very awkward custom-WP setup, in which I can't maintain the present drop-down navigation menu without having those pages under a parent or without completely recoding everything.
I have two requirements, for SEO purposes I'm looking for the following structure for each targeted landing page:
as opposed to www.example.com/sub/landing-page
Of course, having my landing pages as a child, I get the latter of the two. For navigational purposes they need to fall under a specific category in a drop-down menu. With any other theme or setup this is an easy fix, but not here. What I have now is that the landing pages are currently placed under a parent category page. But, they have custom permalinks. The permalinks are setup as follows www.example.com/landing-page
But, technically the exact structure is still www.example.com/sub/landing-page which then redirects to the custom permalink.
So, my question is - in an attempt to get my most important landing pages close to the root for better PR and crawlability, do I still get the same benefit with my current setup? Is this structure I have, better, worse, or indifferent?
Thanks.
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Jay
It does get a little insignificant if its a small site (let's say under 50 pages excluding the blog).
Subfolders are a great way to categorize your content and structure the site so that users and engines can understand the relationships. This is particularly useful on a larger site, where this type of categorization is more important.
I'd say, small site - not a big deal. Make them short and avoid repetitive keywords.
BUT if you anticipate this growing into a larger site, you're going to want that flexibility. Thinking long term it is a little limiting to have a theme that doesn't allow for this option.
-Dan
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Hi Klarke, yep that's the first thing I tried. Unfortunately with the way this particular site is setup that technique doesn't work. This theme uses custom widgets as the nav menu, and using a regular WP nav won't work without some serious recoding.
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You can setup all Landing Pages as "pages".
Then use WordPress Menus to set which ones are drop down by dragging and dropping them into indented positions.
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