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.domain.com/blabla/blabla/keyword?

Monique, The Netherlands

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• seo
• url
• structure

[nqkoi159]

"Not a major factor" you say. So it is a factor?

[SEOAly]

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/keyword.ht­ml

[WilliamNaville]

are these videos by google or by a third party...iam confused

[loadeduk]

am i the only person who listened to the blah blah derb derb derp bit about 5 times lol

[VideoLeadsOnline]

@Indurios Because like it or not, how you build your site matters a lot, maybe just as much as the all hailed "content, content, content" expression because if your site is not found (using Google's algos) then your content is not seen by enough for it to matter. (read: Big Billboard in my BackYard).

[xowi]

Great, thanks for the information.

[sivaganesh1232000]

MC did not understand well.. he is not about PR.

Actually if you have major keyword in the URL , it is good. But not too longtail URL.

Hope it helps.

[lastactionseo]

I allways hear pagerank. pagerank is dead, isn't it?

[Richreeve75]

If Google webmaster tools are releasing these snippets of information, why doesn't google just relax and release EVERY key feature of their algorithum? At the end of the day I'm sure your making updates and changes on a regular basis so it's not like anyone will steal your No.1 possistion. If you released a full list of updates each year too, this would be great and give us SEO's a real qualification in a sense.

P.S spammers wouldn't spend much time on it cos it would still take WORK.