Which URL is better?

question about URL layout for google

[ematiu]

Hello webmasters!

Last week we launch a new site, here in Argentina. We have build a lot of inlinks (about 600, from yahoo site-explorer), but we only have our homepage indexed at google.

We have sucessfully commit our sitemap, 8 days ago.

Our URL layout is something like

/page/param1_value1/param2_value2/...

we have heart that a layout like

/page_param1,value1_param2,value2

would be better, since all URL would be in the 'root' directory.

That you think about this? Is that true?

Thanks a lot!

matías

[theBear]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

I'm going to let others answer your question.

[koan]

I don't think Google care about the closeness of the URL to the "root", what it cares about is the number of pages from your homepage before you reach a particular page, considering your homepage would have the highest Google PR (in most cases), the PR distribution is dependant on that path. A direct link from the homepage would give it the highest PR, but if you need to navigate 2-3 pages from it, it would lower the PR for that page.

[tedster]

I think koan has it nailed down. Think "click path", not "directory depth".

[ematiu]

tedster, koan,

Thanks for your answers!

Ok, so, we just have to wait until our PR goes up.

PR0 now :-(

But, 2.5 <with an online future PR tool>

thanks!
matías

[edited by: tedster at 8:31 pm (utc) on Oct. 18, 2006]