Let’s say you have an online store with 5 categories, 3 subcategories each, and 10 products in each subcategory. How to make the URLs?
You have the following options:
- site.com/product-page-url
- site.com/category/product-page-url
- site.com/sub-category/product-page-url
- site.com/category/sub-category/product-page-url
There’s also a mixed option, in which the product page looks like this:
- site.com/product-page-url
, while the categories look like this:
- site.com/category/
- site.com/category/sub-category/
(in this scenario, things are mixed – the product page has no hierarchy, while the category page has one).
In each of these options, the URL can contain the full title of the product or category, or they can be abbreviated. For example, if you sell air conditioning equipment, you could have any of the following:
- site.com/air-conditioning-equipement/manufacturer-toshiba/toshiba-air-conditnioning-9000-btu-led-display-tos47838389 (notice the long path), or:
- site.com/air-conditioning/toshiba/tos47838389 (notice the abbreviated names)
So, what to choose? Should you use subfolders (/category or /sub-category or /category/sub-category), or should you directly link to products? Also, should you use abbreviated names or long names?
