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[diskwizz]

One of my friends has come up with a question. Basically for SEO purposes which would be the best route or would it really not matter ....www.domain.com/subdir/deals.cfm or www.domain.com/subdir/deals/ any thoughts on that mate?
Cheers, DW

[Loz]

http://domain.com/subdir/deals/ without www.

[Genny]

Hi

Not sure if my question is the same as this or not. Watched Loz's basic videos - Advanced Page Structure, about using a site map as an index pge. As the number of pages build up, it could eventually become clumsy & hard to keep track of all the pages. How would you suggest the site's file structure layout should be? The following seems OK to me:

index.htm
sub-category1
- article1.htm
- article2.htm etc

sub-category2
- article1.htm
- article2.htm etc

I figure this would produce long URLs. Any ideas?

Thanks
Genny

[Loz]

that's it, the general idea.

i generally put around 25-40 items on the home page, but these are categories, then the categories link up to sub-categories, and the sub-categories link up to the articles.
When the category and sub-category pages have more than 25-40 items, I put a page number on there "category-keyword-1.htm" | "category-keyword-2.htm", etc and same too for sub-category; "sub-category-keyword-1.htm" | "sub-category-keyword-2.htm" and so on. And link from the article page in question back to the category pages and or the sub-category page, as well as having a bread-crumb navigation at the top (and at the bottom [optional]) so users can find their way better.

[Genny]

that's it, the general idea.

i generally put around 25-40 items on the home page, but these are categories, then the categories link up to sub-categories, and the sub-categories link up to the articles.
When the category and sub-category pages have more than 25-40 items, I put a page number on there "category-keyword-1.htm" | "category-keyword-2.htm", etc and same too for sub-category; "sub-category-keyword-1.htm" | "sub-category-keyword-2.htm" and so on. And link from the article page in question back to the category pages and or the sub-category page, as well as having a bread-crumb navigation at the top (and at the bottom [optional]) so users can find their way better.

Thanks Loz. Figured it might be a good idea to make each sub-category a sub-domain. That would give better keyword prominence for each sub-category & its keyword in its URL - because sub-domain names appear BEFORE main website URL - what do you think?

Regards
Genny

[Loz]

my way is better. trust me

[Genny]

my way is better. trust me

OK - you win - you're the man.

Thanks
Genny