parent category slug url for subcategories? what is better for SEO?

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  • August 22, 2018 at 8:29 am #443448

    Marc
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    Why subcategories dont have their parent category in the url anymore?

    “Hotels” is Subcategry of “Attractions”:
    “Hotels” = http://rboq.com/off24/anbieter/category/hotels/

    in GDv1 it was like this:
    “Hotels” = http://rboq.com/off24/anbieter/category/attractions/hotels/
    (but in GDv2 this shows “Attractions” and not “Hotels”)

    “Attractions” = http://rboq.com/off24/anbieter/category/attractions/
    (this shows already “Attractions” >> Why have 2 urls that show the same content???)

    For SEO I guess it’s better to have the parent categories in URL as well.
    And better not have 2 urls that show same content, right?
    So
    http://rboq.com/off24/anbieter/category/hotels/
    this should forward to
    http://rboq.com/off24/anbieter/category/attractions/hotels/

    Thanks for clarification,
    Marc

    August 22, 2018 at 12:14 pm #443493

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    Hi Marc,

    We spent some time looking at the best way to do cat permalinks and this made the most sense, this way all cat and cat/location permalinks are the same length and structure, GDv2 cat permalinks are different from GDv1.

    Stiofan

    August 26, 2018 at 8:58 am #444066

    Dirk
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    GDv2 cat permalinks are different from GDv1

    1) From what concept to what concept will it change?

    2) In a migration case what effect does this have for the crawlers? Redirect? Or thousands of 404s?

    August 27, 2018 at 5:48 pm #444221

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    Basically we changed from adding the location in the middle to adding it at the end
    /places/france/attractions/
    /places/category/attractions/france/

    We will add a check to the is_404 to redirect if we find this.

    Stiofan

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