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Questions tagged [site-structure]

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What does a double slash in the URL path mean?

What do double slashes often found in URLs mean? For example: http://www.example.com/A/B//C/ Please note: I'm not referring to the beginning right after http:.
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URL path structure for a website with several directories

I am making a website with several directories that will have a high amount of content. For now I have separated the URLs into categories so that they’re like this: www.example.com/student/ www.example.com/student/student-name/ …
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Do all the pages on a website help the homepage's SEO?

When it comes to SEO, I hear the saying "content is king" a lot, so I tried to create a bunch of pages on my site with good authentic content. However, does creating a lot of content on a page or several pages help the homepage when it comes to SEO…
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SEO consequences for category pages 404-ing

Question, is it ok for one of the pages levels to 404? (SEO-wise) Let's say I have a sitemap like this: example.com --/services --/foo --/bar --/sectors --/my-sector --/another-sector --/the-sector …
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SEO effect of having anchor link content on separate pages as well as on a page all together?

If a page has several sections all using anchor links from a table of contents, are there any SEO consequences of also having separate pages for each section? Here's an example to illustrate the situation. Say there is an essay at…
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Should I make the homepage the parent page of each category on a WordPress site for SEO?

I want to implement good structuring practices for my website to optimize it for search engines. My site is WordPress based. If I have some category pages - should I make the homepage the parent page of each category or is that a given?
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Are there instances where duplicate content could positively affect SEO?

I feel the simple answer, to my question, would be a No! Simply because search engines do not want duplicate content in their results pages. That said, I have come across a lot of websites which have duplicate content. Added to this, such websites…
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Pages or posts for reference site

I have a suburban farm website that I made using wordpress. It is really just for fun but I want to build it with best practise in mind in case I ever want to do more with it. To this point I have been writing 'how to' and 'update' articles which…
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Does a site's URL structure need to match its breadcrumb structure?

I'm working on a site where currently almost all pages have URLs like: http://example.com/page regardless of the underlying directory structure of the site. For example in that page the breadcrumb is homepage->category1->subcategory1->page I'm…
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Understanding of TYPO3 folder structure for own files/directories (file list, FTP)

sadly someone in my family decided to be a casual TYPO3 user. I want to help him, but I don't get their directory structure and want to keep my work clean in a TYPO3 way. So here are some questions: What comes directly into /fileadmin? There is…
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E-Commerce category filters, rel=canonical and SEO

Concise Question How should I, from an SEO standpoint, handle categories on an e-commerce site that may, at any given point, become very thin, containing very few products, then later grow to be a full robust category? In fact it very probably will…
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Duplicate content on same-language region

I'm currently working on a multi-language website. I want to target different regions and each region should have its own site. I currently have two languages for my website: Dutch and English. So I can choose to have http://www.example.com/nl/ and…
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Does a Parent Page receive any SEO benefits, from the successes of its Children Pages?

For a web page to perform well, in search results, I understand it needs to tick many boxes. To name a few: Provide, regular, quality content; Earn Back links, from reputable sources; Link out to reputable sources; Ensure page load speeds are kept…
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Correct way(s) of separating URLs of static pages from main content

Let's say I have a dictionary-like website where I have canonical URLs like example.com/egregious which displays the definition of the word "egregious". However, I have a couple of "static pages" that are not really word definitions, like the about…
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Is it OK to use only special characters in an URL segment?

I wanted to separate a section of my website using an URL segment that contains a special (but URL-safe) character like hyphen or tilde, so that some pages would like this: example.com/-/about or example.com/~/about Is there any problem (technical…
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