site.com/news/ or site.com/blog/ definitely inform search engines as to the type of content they contain.
/category/ or /tag/ does not help search engines afaik, but they do inform readers as to the taxonomy of the site, and help them form a cognitive map. from a pure readership standpoint, /press-release/this-one-here reads better than /category/press-release/this-one-here from a pure seo standpoint, the one _without_ the /category/ would traditionally score higher for that keyword, as it is "up a level" from the second option, but from what I can tell from current reading, this seems to be changing on the major search engines, with the thought that a keyword _deeper_ in the dir tree will actually be more on point/finely tuned. I don't have proof yet, other than the opinions of seo folks, but it seems like deeper structures will actually provide better seo over time. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Michael Dinowitz < [email protected]> wrote: > > I'm having a small disagreement with someone over subdirectory depth and > seo. My understanding is that subdirectories are to give contextual > descriptions and grouping to their content. A subdirectory of news would > lend it's name ('news') to the content of the directory, enhancing it's > 'news-ness'. Additional subdirectories would be more specific such as a > news/coldfusion or a news/jquery. > > The guy I'm talking to didn't want any subdirectories or as few as > possible. > He has a bunch of categories and he wants a page for each category in the > site root. I'd put them all in a categories subdirectory. > > Does anyone have some up-to-date information on this? > > Thanks > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335459 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
