I'm currently in the process of migrating a site. I have some example links like this:
example.com/pricing/
example.com/contact/
example.com/about/
example.com/about/person-a/
example.com/about/person-b/
example.com/about/history/
I was thinking of organize all pages within categories, one of which would be the /about/
category.
Technically, I feel like /pricing/
and /contact/
fall under the /about/
section. Should I change these links to:
example.com/about/contact/
example.com/about/pricing/
There are only about 100 pages in all. I could go the opposite route and have my links be:
example.com/pricing/
example.com/contact/
example.com/about/
example.com/person-a/
example.com/person-b/
example.com/history/
This would be structured in a way where I'm not categorizing pages into groups and instead favoring the shortest link possible while also maintaining readability for humans and search engines.
To add on top of this, I have links that have been in use for ages that are following one method (ie example.com/category/page/
), and other pages that have been in use following the other method (ie example.com/page/
).
I feel like I have three options for this migration:
1. Keep all the links the same, avoiding redirects
2. Make all links as short as possible
3. Put all links into categories, making most of the links longer (not sure what the advantage is here other than satisfying a taxonomy)
What should I do?
example.com/about/person
, it could instead beexample.com/person/
. I feel like this would be shorter and a human could read this link and know what they are clicking on - but maybe a search engine would, for whatever reason, preferexample.com/about/person/
.. maybe it doesn't matter at all? – rpivovar Jul 26 '18 at 16:35