: I think it makes sense to use the folder movie (or something like that) in your URLs. It works as a prefix so that there can be no conflicts with other URLs on the site. If you’d use

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I think it makes sense to use the folder movie (or something like that) in your URLs. It works as a prefix so that there can be no conflicts with other URLs on the site. If you’d use no folder, think what happens if someone makes a movie titled robots.txt ;-) or more likely contact etc.

Search engines won’t penalize you if the hierarchical parts of URLs are not browsable, because it’s very common on the Web (as it’s not required technically).

But why don’t you provide some content under /movie? It probably doesn’t help with SEO much, but some users may thank you. You could show a list of all movies, or offer a form searching for movies. Or, if you can’t find any sensible content, simply 301-redirect to the front page.

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