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msafi - 12:00 am on Nov 2, 2008 (gmt 0)


Hi DilipShaw,

Here's how I structured my website: domain.com/HotKeyword/PostRelatedToHotKeyword/

HotKeyword is a WordPress Page but its slug exactly matches the slug of a category. So now when someone accesses domain.com/HotKeyword/ they see a WordPress Page that is full of content and that links to PostRelatedToHotKeywords.

So now I no longer have the traditional WordPress category pages. I got rid of those completely. Instead, I have manual category pages that I write myself. When I write a Post (not a Page), I file it under the category HotKeyword, so that the URL looks like domain.com/HotKeyword/PostRelatedToHotKeyword/

I used a plug-in to remove the "category" word from the URL and I used another plug-in that is called SEO siloing (I'm not sure if its functionality is a factor in this setup though).

I feel that the internal linking structure of my website is much cleaner now and makes more sense.

[edited by: caveman at 12:36 am (utc) on Nov. 2, 2008]


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