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Old 01-17-2006, 12:32 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Talking 3 Level Deep vs Top - File Location

So I was wondering what do you guys think rate better.
Keep in mind it takes the same # of clicks to reach each file they are just named differently w/mod_rewrite.

Method #1
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www.domain.com/article/category-name-#/article-name-#.html
Basicaly the article is burried 2 levels deep for the main category, and a sub-category would put it 3 levels deep away from the home directory.

Method #2
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www.domain.com/#.php
The article appears to be in the 'root' directory of the website, and no matter where it is in the category structure it's always there. # is simply a number 1-???? whatever, and contains no letters or anything else.


Those are the 2 options I want discussed in this post, but from my standpoint I do something like www.domain.com/a#-article-name.html for an article or www.domain.com/c#-category-name.html for a category. I`ve also done #.domain.com/article-name.html and this really only helped mSN and they stopped allowing "this" to help boost your ranking.

So for the discussion Method #1 or Method #2 assuming both pages are setup identical with proper H1, Title, and Meta, etc, etc.

Which do you think would rank higher??
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Depth of file from root hasn't mattered for a long time now, IMO. Google treats a page the same no matter how many folders deep it is.

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Depth of file from root hasn't mattered for a long time now, IMO. Google treats a page the same no matter how many folders deep it is.

Is that what your post is about?
Yep!

So for that matter do the keywords in the url HELP then?
My expierence has shown very slightly, but i`m not sure if they IMPROVE ranking... just help identify pages content.
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It definitely helps in Yahoo, so I'd say keep the keywords in the file/ folder names.

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