Comments on: SEO friendly file and folder structures

By: goodseo

goodseo — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:27:27 +0000

Thank you for this post David. I have had success with both the .html and folder url’s. I just love the neatness of http://www.domain.com/descriptive-keyword/descriptive-keyword.html.

By: David Schoenfeld

David Schoenfeld — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:53 +0000

This is an old post but still only one of the few useful results for “folder or .html seo” and similar. Thanks for this information your conclusions were the same I had, but i wasn’t sure if that is the same for big sites with great amounts of content. I was wondering if you could get better results having the .html at the end of the file as it is seen as file and not as folder. Wouldn’t the search engine see it the /keyword/keyword2/ as folder and expect some files in that folder?

Let’s say you have some categories and group them up and just put several .html files in one folder

/keyword1/keyword1_1.html /keyword1/keyword1_2.html
/keyword1/keyword1_3.html

/keyword2/keyword2_1.html
/keyword2/keyword2_3.html

instead of different folders you have files. Maybe the files next to each other have an effect if google has them in the index and they know that they’re there. So the “group folder” is indexed and all the little .html files next to each other instead of folders.

I had great success with small sites and the .html strategy. On medium size pages it worked well aswell…

We should ask Mister Matt Cutts about this

By: Byron Rode

Byron Rode — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:03:31 +0000

Et,

Outstanding first post. Very informative with a nice mixture of tech and non-tech SEO information. Looking forward to seeing what you push out on this site in the future.

Keep em coming.

Oh and glad to see you have a blog now

By: sanet

sanet — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:18:46 +0000

easy to follow layout and train of thought. Thanks

By: Frewbru

Frewbru — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:32:03 +0000

Nice one Etienne, interesting, even for a non tech person like myself.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:39:57 +0000

As always, good info from the SEO boss…

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:29:44 +0000

Great post.
Look forward to seeing more.
The right folder structure is the starting point of a succesful SEO website.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:54:34 +0000

Great post Etienne – I’ll be learning a lot from this place

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:37:23 +0000

Nice post my man. I’ve seen a few, not many, posts where folder structure is stressed as a good SEO plan. Many seem to forget this.
Some CMS’s have this build in, where you can stipulate your folder structure, while others use the title of your post. If your keywords are in there, then it is much better.

But there is nothing like a self designed folder stucture for good SEO.
However, I do believe the the popular CMS packages are slowly catching up.

By: Bronson

Bronson — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:02:43 +0000

Nice post Etienne.

I agree 100% that the method you’ve outlined is a great way to keep your site url’s tidy, effective, and expandable without being overly spammy.

Congrats on the new blog and your 1st post, I look forward to more like this.