What is best website structure and why, mentioning that my intention is to get as much visitors from google as possible.

url.com/category/product/ or
url.com/category/product.html

the best url structure is without urls... It is also called "url rewrite". Just search for that phrase on google. You'll get tons of answers.

Originally Posted by Matthew

the best url structure is without urls... It is also called "url rewrite". Just search for that phrase on google. You'll get tons of answers.

How can you not have urls?:detective:

I was chasing some similar information a few weeks ago with this thread - earnersforum.com/showthread.php?t=6450

(I would have linked it but apparently im not allowed to post links till i hit 15 posts.)

Originally Posted by Matthew

the best url structure is without urls... It is also called "url rewrite". Just search for that phrase on google. You'll get tons of answers.

Yes, this is the exact answer. I can see many websites on search engine listing using this method.

Generally, you can theme your categories.

It doesn't matter if your last one is a folder or a file.

What matter is, though, keywords in the URL, no parameters and the least folders (/) and the shorter the URL is, the better.

I would say the first of your suggestions is better.

Originally Posted by A.N.Onym

Generally, you can theme your categories.

It doesn't matter if your last one is a folder or a file.

What matter is, though, keywords in the URL, no parameters and the least folders (/) and the shorter the URL is, the better.

I agree with you It doesn't matter that the last one is folder or the first one and the best url structure to write is always in the form of dashes for ex. i-am-a-good-boy.html

I would go with "url.com/category/product/"

Originally Posted by hyproVision

I would go with "url.com/category/product/"

will this not be better ?

my-url.com/my-category/my-product/my-page.html ?

Generally, it doesn't matter if the URL ends with an extension or not.

Most often, you will have multiple files in a folder, so there will be an extension, anyway.

However, you can have the main page of the product be called index.php/html/asp, and you can then direct folks at site.com/category/product easily.

Mostly, it doesn't make much sense, it is just that the less folders there are, and the shorter the URL is, the better. Most probably, only the file depth matters.

well both of them is alright but just make sure the URLs have your keywords.

Akash

Each site is differently, there is no absolute answer. However, the directory only structure looks much cleaner.