Category or no category?

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Category or no category?

progex

1:54 am on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Setting practibility aside, which is better for SEO purposes:

[sitename.com...]

nileshkurhade

5:07 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

sitename.com->widgets.html
sitename.com->/category/widgets.html
Both widgets.html are on same level so no difference.

sitename.com->category->widgets.html
Now the widgets.html is on third level so there will be a drop in PR

dannyboy

6:05 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

I've had files nested severals deep without experiencing a PR problem. I'd personally go with the latter because it future-proofs your site. Do you honestly think nesting your file one folder deep will make a hill of beans worth of difference? If you put this file in your root folder then you may eventually going to regret the clutter.

BTW, I'd eliminate the .html just incase you want to switch to a new file format in the future:

[sitename.com...]

nileshkurhade

6:10 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Having directories or folders dosent make a difference in fact may add keywords to the url. But if you are going to have links from home then to category and then to widgets.html you will lose PR on the widgets.html page.

PR is lost as you go deep in your links structure.

progex

6:36 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Having directories or folders dosent make a difference in fact may add keywords to the url. But if you are going to have links from home then to category and then to widgets.html you will lose PR on the widgets.html page.

I see, so what would happen if I link from Home > widgets.html AND Home > Category > widgets.html? Will I get extra PR passed on since widgets.html is being interlinked from 2 sources?

nileshkurhade

6:47 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

I see, so what would happen if I link from Home > widgets.html AND Home > Category > widgets.html? Will I get extra PR passed on since widgets.html is being interlinked from 2 sources?

In this case the PR will be shared amongst the two widgets.html files. If you keep just one widgets.html file, it would receive more PR from home.

progex

7:07 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

If you keep just one widgets.html file, it would receive more PR from home.

So the PR on widgets.html would be from Home and Sitemap combined... But the PR from Home would of course be higher.

steveb

11:22 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

"Now the widgets.html is on third level so there will be a drop in PR"

No it would not. There is no correlation at all between directory level and PR.

It's all about linkage. In this case having the directory level would likely make sense for other reasons including user friendlieness, so that would be a reason to do it.

None of this has the slightest to do with PR.