Alysson Fergison (SEOAly)

SEOAly commented 1 year ago

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Does the number of subdirectories in a URL affect its ranking?

How much of a difference does the number of levels in the URL make?

Does 'www.domain.com/keyword'

give much higher rankings on 'keyword' than www...

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SEOAly said:

@webmastertool - Matt's states, verbatim, "...I wouldn't worry very much at all about whether things were at one level deeper..." and "...it's really not a major factor in Google search engine rankings." Not straightforward answers. Nor would I expect them to be.

The phrase "does not matter"...

• SEOAly commented 1 year ago

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  Does the number of subdirectories in a URL affect its ranking?

  How much of a difference does the number of levels in the URL make?

  Does 'www.domain.com/keyword'

  give much higher rankings on 'keyword' than www...

  16,493 views

  SEOAly said:

  @alternatereality85 - no doubt about it. I would never expect a straightforward answer. Though I believe the way in which questions such as this are worded can certainly make a difference.

  Though I have a feeling questions worded in a more concrete "option A" vs. "option B" manner probably a...

• SEOAly commented 1 year ago

  1:52 Add to

  Does the number of subdirectories in a URL affect its ranking?

  How much of a difference does the number of levels in the URL make?

  Does 'www.domain.com/keyword'

  give much higher rankings on 'keyword' than www...

  16,493 views

  SEOAly said:

  @alternatereality85 - right. I get the reason for his ambiguity. I've been amused by Matt's vague answers to questions for some time. Site architecture should be as flat as possible not only to make crawling easier, but - more importantly - navigating the site easier for visitors.

  My sugges...

• SEOAly commented 1 year ago

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  Does the number of subdirectories in a URL affect its ranking?

  How much of a difference does the number of levels in the URL make?

  Does 'www.domain.com/keyword'

  give much higher rankings on 'keyword' than www...

  16,493 views

  SEOAly said:

  Hooray for ambiguity! "Not a major factor...". I'd have been surprised to find anything more concrete in the answer to this question. I think the real question is this:

  ALL else being equal, which of these two pages would rank better:

  domain.com/keyword.html

  OR

  domain.com/category/keyw...

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