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Magento Categories SEO Url structure - keyword stuffing
Posted on 2014-01-10
Hi There
I just needed some advice as to the best way to organise Magento categories and url settings. Magento allows two options, to use the full category path as url or the product name.
I set up categories with keywords but I think I made a mistake setting up subcategories with keywords too so for 10% of items the url may look like:_
www.xxx. com/e-cigarette-kits/e-cig
www.xxx. xom/ego-e-ecigarette-start
The full path looks spammy 10% of the time but for 90% of products its better as the product name/url contains no keyword. Eg
www.xxx. com/e-liquid/menthol flavour
www.xxx .com/menthol flavour
I can either rename the subcategories to avoid keyword overuse or just use the short product url.
Any advice gratefully received
Thank you.
I just needed some advice as to the best way to organise Magento categories and url settings. Magento allows two options, to use the full category path as url or the product name.
I set up categories with keywords but I think I made a mistake setting up subcategories with keywords too so for 10% of items the url may look like:_
www.xxx. com/e-cigarette-kits/e-cig
www.xxx. xom/ego-e-ecigarette-start
The full path looks spammy 10% of the time but for 90% of products its better as the product name/url contains no keyword. Eg
www.xxx. com/e-liquid/menthol flavour
www.xxx .com/menthol flavour
I can either rename the subcategories to avoid keyword overuse or just use the short product url.
Any advice gratefully received
Thank you.
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It's marginally better to have higher level links i.e. not 3,4 or more levels deep.
As far as your sample links
e-cigarette-kits/e-cigaret
has not SEO benefit over just
ego-e-ecigarette-starter-k
As for your other link just change the url to
menthol-flavour-e-liquid
(I assume the space you have in their is just a typo)
In Magento you can set the url to whatever you want, so if you do not have too many products I would say this is the way to go.
And remember to enable the canonical option for the links.
Also remember that the url is a tiny part of what Google considers for SEO
As far as your sample links
e-cigarette-kits/e-cigaret
has not SEO benefit over just
ego-e-ecigarette-starter-k
As for your other link just change the url to
menthol-flavour-e-liquid
(I assume the space you have in their is just a typo)
In Magento you can set the url to whatever you want, so if you do not have too many products I would say this is the way to go.
And remember to enable the canonical option for the links.
Also remember that the url is a tiny part of what Google considers for SEO
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