Structure help please

Which would be best?

[Nick_W]

Hi all

I want to target these phrases:

• Fuzzy green widgets
  
• Fuzzy green wozzits
  
• Fuzzy green izzits
  

What am I best off doing re: structure?

A
Putting them all in the root and naming the pages fuzzy-green-widgets.html - fuzzy-green-wozzits.html etc (or in their own directory)

B
/fuzzy-green/widgets.html
/fuzzy-green/wozzits.html

What think you guys?

Nick

[Nick_W]

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Awwww....C'mon guys!
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[paynt]

Hi Nick_W [how about a gal ;)],

I’ll throw out my ideas but note these ideas would be dependent on my overall strategy.

Consider...

The first utilizes canonicals. With canonicals I throw all caution to the wind, hahaha! <aside – private joke with me and my brain>

So for your

Fuzzy green widgets
Fuzzy green wozzits
Fuzzy green izzits

I would have the choice C:

widgets.exmple.com
wozzits.exmple.com
izzits.exmple.com

I use this method when I have a lot of each to offer and each can hold it’s own in a canonical.

My D choice:

This doesn’t use canonicals, works on the smaller site that has less to offer or less content.

exmple.com/widgets/index.htm
exmple.com/widgets/fuzzy-green/index.htm
exmple.com/wozzits/index.htm
exmple.com/wozzits/fuzzy-green/index.htm
exmple.com/izzits/index.htm
exmple.com/izzits/fuzzy-green/index.htm

When naming links in the page code I end with the trailing slash, ‘/’ and leave off the index.htm.

This works if I’m taking it 3 levels (sometimes 4 there’s always exceptions)

[Nick_W]

Thanks Paynt. Gals are cool too... ;)

I'm goint to try:

/fuzzy-green/widgets.html
/fuzzy-green/wozzits.html

I think it makes sense to me, google's got the whole pharse in the url, not too deep, but wont make my site have umpteen folders full of one page index's.

I'll let you know how it works out next update (new site!)

Cheers

Nick