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5 Reasons To Use a Folder Name URL Structure

Posted By: kevgibbo 419 days ago
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Category: SEO

5 advantages listed for using folder name URL's.

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from g1smd 418 days ago #

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*** Another factor with this change was because it's possible the site will be moving from a Windows server to Linux in the near future. This means that the ASP file extensions would have to be changed to PHP. ***

In fact the extension does not matter. I run PHP sites that show .html URLs. There is a PHP-scripted site that shows .asp URLs. You can use any extension you like. It doesn't matter what it is. With Apache hosting it is a one-line job to set up each extension.

However I do agree that "folder URLs" are even better.

from qwerty 418 days ago #

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One very minor thing to watch out for when you're doing things this way: don't forget the trailing slash in your links, or you'll give your server just a tiny bit more work than you need to. It won't make a real difference, but I'd avoid the redirect this generates if possible. For example, if I follow your site's footer link to the privacy page (the target of which is http://www.seoptimise.com/privacy), I get the following server response:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

Content-Length: 157

Content-Type: text/html

Location: http://www.seoptimise.com/privacy/

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:37:34 GMT

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