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URL Structure

by Chrysanthi Themistokleous
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Hi guys,

I am looking into URL structuring and I have a question. I think it's best if I describe everything in an example:

Let's say I have a website which sells video games: www.isellvideogames.com

For each video game in my main list view my URL could be: www.isellvideogames.com/assassins-creed OR www.isellvideogames.com/video-games/assassins-creed

But let's say the game shows up in different list-view pages on my site like: www.isellvideogames.com/ubisoft-games

If a user accesses the game page through my non-main list-view pages (ubisoft example), is it correct to keep the URL structure as www.isellvideogames.com/assassins-creed?

Would it be better for spiders and crawlers if I created a www.isellvideogames.com/ubisoft-games/assassins-creed page, which would ultimately redirect the user to the original /assassins-creed page?

Or would it be overall better if my URL structure for the specific page be www.isellvideogames.com/ubisoft-games/assassins-creed straight from the start for all pages the game shows up in on my site?

Please also let me know if you have any other suggestions as far as URL structuring goes.

Thanks
#structure #url
  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    For canonical and cannibalization reasons, I would keep it as simple as possible and make the URL www.isellvideogames.com/assassins-creed. That way, you don't end up with several URLs of the same exact page when it shows up in multiple categories.

    Do you have to do that? No, but if you don't, make sure that all of the various category URLs reference the same single canonical URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author robin rivera
    For my own websites, I ended up using a slightly different approach.

    I have different areas in my site, I have Q&A pages where users can ask and answer questions, and I have blog articles also.

    Using your case, if I had the following page: isellvideogames.com/assassins-creed, it would not be easy to understand if it's a blog article, or a Q&A page.

    The way I have my pages structure is everything within the blog is under the /blog/ path, everything that is a Q&A page is under the /questions/ path, and everything else is a page "group" or topic.

    For example, /assassins-creed/ would be a topic about assassins creed, in it would be a page with everything related to assassins creed, links to articles on the topic and Q&A pages.
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