Which URL would you go for?

[Jamie101]

Setting up a new site which I'm planning on putting a lot of time (and probably money!) in to, so want to make sure I get the URL structure the best that I can.

I think it's either these two:

mysite.co.uk/reviews/samsung - which then lists all the samsung reviews

or

mysite.co.uk/samsung-reviews - which then lists all the samsung reviews


Would I be right in saying that the second one would be better for SEO and readability?

 

[Skinner]

I'd go for the first one, because it means you can set http://site.tld/reviews as the home, and then keyword follows on http://site.tld/reviews/samsung, then http://site.tld/reviews/samsung/bdf7500/ etc makes for a logical structure.

 

[Alien]

1st.

 

[Murray]

I guess it depends on if the site is just going to be all about reviews or a lot of other things..

It makes no difference in terms of SEO whether it's either though

Just make sure you watch out for canonical issues.

 

[Jamie101]

Thanks everyone.

Maybe it's just me but I think something like mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung/galaxy-s3 or whatever looks too long and spammy.

The site isn't all about reviews but around 60% probably will be reviews to be honest.

 

[chippyb]

Why not just do it like

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung/ for a list of all samsung reviews

then

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung-galaxy-s3

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung-galaxy-s4

for each one

 

[Jamie101]

Why not just do it like

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung/ for a list of all samsung reviews

then

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung-galaxy-s3

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung-galaxy-s4

for each one

Not a bad idea but that'd probably make me have to mess around with Wordpress to group all Samsung reviews when someone visits mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung


I think I'll use mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung/galaxy-s3 for example, it might look the best but it makes it easy for people to look at certain brands.

 

[paymatters]

I'd have thought the more detail in the domain the better. Very unlikely to get hits for samsung reviews so should concentrate on very product specific reviews for particular models?

 

[PaulGregory]

If you're in WordPress, then this is fiddly.

With Custom Post Types you could use "reviews/" for category archives and "review/" for individual review posts.

 

[max99x]

Why not just do it like

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung/ for a list of all samsung reviews

then

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung-galaxy-s3

mysite.co.uk/reviews/Samsung-galaxy-s4

for each one

i'd go for this or similar.

out of interest, is it going to be a review site? may have something to interest you if it is

 

[Jamie101]

Went for my site.co.uk/reviews/samsung/galaxy-s3 in the end. Hopefully it works well.

Max - mainly reviews yes. PM me if you want.

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