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I've
noticed for a while now that pages with shorter urls seem to rank better with Google, especially pages that managed to get indexed with really short urls like mydomain.com/9999 instead of the usual category path. With the current default {CATREWRITEPATH}/{PAGE}.html scheme, I've noticed that for example that mydomain.com/coupon-codes/clothing/childrens-apparel/rascals-2-rockstars/ also works at mydomain.com/9999/rascals-2-rockstars/ or just mydomain/rascals-2-rockstars/
So I'm trying to decide what is the best way to shorten down my urls, and 301 redirecting the old ones to the new ones, without fudging everything up, and still keeping them categorized. I'd like to change the cat rewrite to {CATNAME}/{PAGE}.html , but I would have to make sure every category name is unique, which is fine with me. Or I could leave the rewrite path alone, and just use mydomain.com/{CATNAME} on site and let the bots pick it up from there, ammend the sitemap and try to create some 301 redirects that don't break everything.
Any thoughts or anything I should be aware of?
In preparation for a change I've made sure there are no special characters any of my {CATNAME}s and removed any specialurl redirects. |
