Best URL structure....

[beks001]

whats the best url structure these days?
domain.com/postname-here/

or

domain.com/postname-here.html

or neither?

or domain.com/category/postname-here/

Any help would be appreciated.

[sexybabe]

domain.com/postname-here/
or
domain.com/postname-here.html


I use domain.com/postname-here.html

[CunningStunt]

I generally use what these guys recommend: http://www.searchengineguide.com/sto...cture-sear.php

domain.com/category/pagename.html

If you have a shallow site with no cats, just use domain.com/pagename.html

If you use domain.com/pagename/ it implies that's a directory.

Make sure you also only have one version of your site in the eyes of google, a noob mistake I see even huge corps do, is have:

http://domain.com and:

http://www.domain.com

As stupid as it seems, they are seen by some search engines as different sites. Redirect the non www. to the www version. The home page should always be http://www.domain.com, not:

http://www.domain.com/index.html
http://domain.com
http://www.domain.com/default.aspx

Good luck

[ideaworx]

Originally Posted by CunningStunt

I generally use what these guys recommend: http://www.searchengineguide.com/sto...cture-sear.php

domain.com/category/pagename.html

If you have a shallow site with no cats, just use domain.com/pagename.html

If you use domain.com/pagename/ it implies that's a directory.

Make sure you also only have one version of your site in the eyes of google, a noob mistake I see even huge corps do, is have:

http://domain.com and:

http://www.domain.com

As stupid as it seems, they are seen by some search engines as different sites. Redirect the non www. to the www version. The home page should always be http://www.domain.com, not:

http://www.domain.com/index.html
http://domain.com
http://www.domain.com/default.aspx

Good luck

http://domain.com and redirect all the www. to the non-www, not good?

[CunningStunt]

Originally Posted by ideaworx

http://domain.com and redirect all the www. to the non-www, not good?

I've seen that done too.

As long as you're 100% consistent with one or the other, you should be fine.

I prefer the full www. version myself, it's what people are used to seeing.

More reading for those interested in case the usual trolls try to jump me: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/c...w-or-not/6950/