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E-commerce - URLs structure

by Flop
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Often I notice e-commerce URLs being very different from the category page to the product page.

For example:
www.example.com/men-clothes/ for the category page
once you click on the product page it becomes: www.example.com/fitted-shirts-black.com

According to your experience, wouldn't it be more beneficial to structure the URL as such:
http://www.example.com/men-clothes/f...irts-black.com ?

Cheers
#ecommerce #structure #urls
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  • Profile picture of the author mason4
    ehhh, I don't understand why it finishes with .com, maybe you made a mistake? It's .html, right? Or if not, so why?
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  • Profile picture of the author Flop
    Hey Mason - Sorry my bad, I meant:

    www.example.com/men-clothes/ for the category page
    once you click on the product page it becomes: www.example.com/fitted-shirts-black.html

    According to your experience, wouldn't it be more beneficial to structure the URL as such:
    http://www.example.com/men-clothes/f...rts-black.html ?
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  • Profile picture of the author RuskinF
    The first way is easier and simpler to maintain because the product can become out of stock or can be discontinued at some point in time. In such a case the URL can just be dumped all together.
    Also, there are fewer subsections in the URL slug if they keep the directory and the listed product on a separate URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    From an SEO perspective, it's not really going to matter all that much. If you have the option, I'd rather go without the category folder in the URL because the product page stays autonomous and won't have a bunch of different duplicate reference path URLs (from other categories, sorting, etc.).
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  • Profile picture of the author amb1guous
    Yes, it would give more of an SEO advantage. When you use platforms like Shopify or WordPress, some URLs get discombobulated with however way the system prefers, so if you can organize it better (as well as remove duplicate pages in the background), it's more power to your website searchability and ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Flop
    Thanks!
    I also believe having a clear URL path would give an SEO advantage (not changing the URL structure from the category page to the product)
    If I use descriptive product names, I probably will have two times the same keywords in the URL, which might be considered as spammy by Google, what do you think?
    E.g:
    www.example.com/short-sleeve-shirts for the category page
    http://www.example.com/short-sleeve-...s-blue-striped for the product page
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by Flop View Post

      Thanks!
      I also believe having a clear URL path would give an SEO advantage (not changing the URL structure from the category page to the product)
      If I use descriptive product names, I probably will have two times the same keywords in the URL, which might be considered as spammy by Google, what do you think?
      E.g:
      www.example.com/short-sleeve-shirts for the category page
      http://www.example.com/short-sleeve-...s-blue-striped for the product page
      Nothing at all wrong with that and the URL structure has nothing at all to do with what Google considers "spammy" since the URL is in no way related to how a page ranks (except in the case of country-specific TLDs, which is irrelevant to this discussion).
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  • Profile picture of the author nikitacod
    Structuring an ecommerce website should be easy right?

    Just take all of your product categories, make a page for each, add the products to each one, and you're done...

    Well not exactly.

    Common issues such as keyword cannibalisation can occur if you don't structure your site properly, which can leave you with lower rankings and ultimately less sales.
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by nikitacod View Post

      Structuring an ecommerce website should be easy right?

      Just take all of your product categories, make a page for each, add the products to each one, and you're done...

      Well not exactly.

      Common issues such as keyword cannibalisation can occur if you don't structure your site properly, which can leave you with lower rankings and ultimately less sales.
      Keyword cannibilaztion WILL NOT lead to lower rankings. It just means that some of the pages using the same keyword phrases will be redundant and not rank for the same phrase that other pages are already ranking for.

      The goal is to get people over to your site. As long as you're ranking well for the keyword phrase with at least one of your pages, you should be pretty happy.
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