Sub Pages and On page SEO.

[blogspotter]

I have always used subpages to create categories of sub niches that I can target for longer tails. eg:

Bigsite.com/blue-widgets/Light-blue-widgets
Bigsite.com/blue-widgets/Dark-blue-widgets

Now I can also as easily rank for "light blue widgets" if I was using the URL structure as

Bigsite.com/light-blue-widgets

The longer url of Bigsite.com/blue-widgets/Light-blue-widgets clutters up the URL structure and I am thinking of doing
Bigsite.com/Light-blue-widgets-001.html or something like that.

Is there any extra benefit using an url structure where you use a parent page? I used to think it has some benefit, not sure why I thought so.. maybe because all my competitors were doing it lol. Been doing this for quite sometime.

I can just create a Parent page, and then link out to the sub pages.

eg: Create Bigsite.com/blue-widgets

And on that page links to all the Sub pages, but the URL will not contain blue-widgets as the parent directory.

What say?

Or should I just stick to my tested structure of parent page/child page even in the URL

Not sure if the parent/child page in the URL give extra information to the Search Engines....


TIA..

Sometimes, mini Boobs also turn me on.

 

[coffeebean]

You don't need the blue-widgets parent directory unless it adds some value for usability, like maybe if the product titles you're using in the "filename" portion aren't really keyword friendly or specific enough, which I think would be rare.

Otherwise, look how Amazon does it:
hxxp://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-SD780IS-Stabilized-Silver/dp/B001SER47O

Yeah they've got the /dp/productcode crap at the end but, see, the most specific keywords -- the product title they're trying to rank for -- are jammed right up toward the front.

 

[blogspotter]

Just wanted a second opinion....


Thanks

You don't need the blue-widgets parent directory unless it adds some value for usability, like maybe if the product titles you're using in the "filename" portion aren't really keyword friendly or specific enough, which I think would be rare.

Otherwise, look how Amazon does it:
hxxp://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-SD780IS-Stabilized-Silver/dp/B001SER47O

Yeah they've got the /dp/productcode crap at the end but, see, the most specific keywords -- the product title they're trying to rank for -- are jammed right up toward the front.