URL format with categories

[GeXus]

I have categories and then pages within those categories that are basically the keywords. I'm debating about using the following url formats:

keyword.domain.com/Category/SubCategory

OR

domain.com/Category/SubCategory/Keyword

OR

domain.com/Category/SubCategory/Keyword.html

OR

domain.com/Keyword/Category/SubCategory/


Does anyone have any recomendations?

[tsf]

i say non od them

this is what you should do:

www.domain.com/keyword.html

try to be as closer as you can to your index page so indexing and ranks will be better. even if you have your keyword in url - i dont think its gona make much of a diffrence.

[GeXus]

I could do that too, but then the density is so high, and quite frankly, I rarely see sites in top listings with that format.

But that is an option, would like to see what more people think.

[hhheng]

I think keyword.domain.com will be better. For a keyword searching, google will also look in the domain for the keyword. Search "website promotion" in google, you can see that the top 3 pages all have "promotion" in their domain. But google will not look at /category/subcategory/...

[Sadu]

Are you doing a real site, or a spam site?

Most logical for users while still decent for search engines is probably something like...
http://www.example.com/digital-camer...ybershot-1234/

Depends on how many levels you have etc.

My own way of doing things is...
www.example.com/products/345/name-of-product/

I find having the product ID in the URL makes it much easier to maintain, even if the URLs look a bit uglier. Keeps the URL to a reasonable length too, adding categories in there can get out of hand if you don't keep the names short.

But if you going for rankings hard-core, probably better ways of doing it.

[GeXus]

hhheng, Yeah I am kind of leaning towards that, the only problem is it does seem kind of spammy so i'm not sure yet.

No sadu this is not a spam site.

[Bestmiler]

I would go ahead and make a subfolder (www.domain.com/keyword). Do not make a subdomain because SE's count them as separate domains (unless you want to do that)