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www.domain.com/fruit/apple/apple.html

or

www.domain.com/fruit/apple.html

or

www.domain.com/fruit-apple.html


what is the best for structure for SEO out of the 3 links above?

your focus is apple with fruit being secondary....

whoah trippy.

That's an excellent question. Although, I'm no expert .. I'm pretty sure that the less buried the better .. so maybe C ??

Now .. if a train leaves Chicago ...

the 2nd one!

They all pretty much work the same way in terms of SEO, and they will all fail the same way if the pages dont have any relevant content on them the directory structure isnt going to matter one iota $0.02

hmmm. I would go with www.domain.com/fruit/apple.html if you have a index page on www.domain.com/fruit/ with various content and links to other fruits like www.domain.com/fruit/pears.html

I'd say the 2nd one. I wouldn't call myself an SEO though

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+1 :2 cents:

2nd one ........

lol and what search engine? :)

backlinks ftw

"Are You An SEO Pro?"

1) www.domain.com/fruit/apple/apple.html
2) www.domain.com/fruit/apple.html
3) www.domain.com/fruit-apple.html

tbh, i choose:

4) I know the answer, but since i'm a SEO Pro, why should i tell you?!

If you had to choose one of the 3, then #2. Otherwise, www.domain.com/fruit/apple/. No .html, i.e. the way most WP slugs are.

We have the winner :thumbsup

Not sure why the question was asked but here is an interesting read:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

www.domain.com/fruit/apple.html provides the best website structure, organization and usability.

that article is why i switched to dashes versus underscores..

i still dont know if i trust the man, but it sounded legit.... :thumbsup

depends on what else is on the site.

I don't think it makes a fucking difference. Google is smart enough that is really cares about "the content" and the words used in the actual page text. Here is a article from that says they will stop looking at meta tags too.

http://www.bagoscomp.com/technology-...ags-worthless/

according to google, yes..

but i keep the tags in there for the other se's anyway....

but yes, content relevance is king...

I would say the second one

Yep, I'd say the same and I've done similar with projects.

Whatever Matt Cutts suggests, do the opposite. He's the biggest source of misinformation Google ever came up.
WG

fruit.domain.com/apple.html lol :winkwink:

what the wg said.

I'm not a SEO pro, so I use this guy and make bling like mad :thumbsup

See my sig for easy way to do this in wp :thumbsup

Nice looking plugin.

it works really well, can do a/b tracking etc also. Its nice for surfer to find your affiliate link naturally like apart of your site :thumbsup

If apple is a very competitive keyword, you will probably not be able to get rankings for domain.com/apple or any of the directories crap you mentioned. You need a stand-along website about apple, preferably with the best possible keyword domain like apple.com (.net and .org will do just as well for SEO). Adding fruit will do nothing. If you want to optimize for apple, you need to optimize for apple.

I'd say the second one... but SEO depends a lot more or INBOUND LINKS than on the site's URL structure

on a serious note - none of them.

backlinks
title
meta description
h1
seo url

BACKLINKS

depends, to hit the apple keyword i would suggest to have dedicated pages for some types of apple and in that case you would use:

www.domain.com/fruit/apple/appletype.html

that would be the optimal imo.

ding ding we have a winner!

Interesting.

Also interesting.

Also, very Interesting.

:2 cents:

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B or C will do.

so guys you are talking still only about google? you know, i will share with you big secret ... there is more than one search engine, and every engine needs other things ... now you can go back to the work :)

2nd one is ok

Sure, there is lots of search engines.

But only one that sends traffic worth spending effort to get.

depends on which keyword(s) you want to go for

http://www.apple.com/fruit/

if you really want to rank for "apple" with fruit being secondary. Good luck with that!

apple.froot.com/apple-type.rss

http://www.apple.com/fruit/apple/ <--

http://www.apple.com/fruit/apple/

Siloing & interlinking are the key for Onsite optimization

in general, the less buried the better.

http://www.apple.gov/fruit/apple/ban...le&apple=fruit

guaranteed 1st position :thumbsup