URL Structure for Blog
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Hi guys,
Hope you are all doing well today.
I have a questions with regards to our blog URL structure.
The URL for the blog is /blog - however when you click on a blog post the "/blog" disappears completely and is replaced by the title of the post. So it is ".com/title-of-post" for example.
Would it be better to keep the blog subdomain in the URL so it is ".com/blog/title-of-article"
Any insight would be appreciated. My thoughts are that surely the second option above is ideal?
Thanks
Tom
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Hi Tom,
I guess if you used a /blog sub-folder, any links to individual posts will pass juice down to the main /blog landing page. If you go for the /blog-name URL, juice will be spread across the whole domain.
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Hi Lewis,
That's is what I am thinking too. However, I am merely interested in this in terms of an effect on SEO.
Cheers
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Hi Tom,
I've always used /blog/blog-name as the URL structure for any blog. I feel this makes it clear to Google that these posts belong to a blog and are not a stand-alone, separate page on your site. However, I'm not sure it would have a massive SEO effect if you kept the /blog-name structure.
Cheers,
Lewis
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