Avoiding subdirectories

If you website is not that big, you want to avoid using sub directories. A sub directory is a directory/folder within the root, or folder of your website.

Search engines consider pages within the root directory of your website to be more important than ones in sub directories. So, if you have a larger website, simply make sure your main pages are within the root folder of your website. When using sub directories for other pages, simply use a format for your directory/folder names like so:

Instead of let’s say, using a folder named root/tips/ , root/seotips/

Simply put a – in between words. Use the main keywords that your are trying to rank for for these folder names also, don’t just use general keywords. So here is an example:

root/seo-tips/

Why use a “-” ?

We want to use a “-” because search engines consider these spaces. Let’s say you have three words within your keyword you are trying to rank for. Simply just put 2 dashes in between to space them out.

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