: URL good practice for category sub category? I have developed a application and I need to work for SEO-friendly URL. I have following URL structure: http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2

@Heady270

I would suggest that any ID numbers that are needed to figure out the page be placed near the beginning of the URL, rather than at the end. This is because long URLs have a tendency to be truncated in email and when pasted into forums and other content management systems.
localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slu... cannot be understood by your web server but localhost:3000/posts/product/2-4-23-testing-wi... could be.

I wrote a good answer to Are keywords in URLs good SEO or needlessly redundant? that covers this entire topic well and is worth your read.

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@Yeniel560

I doubt the integers will have an actual effect on your rankings.

If possible, I'd suggest to make the URLs have the same hierarchy as the logical hierarchy of your content, that is in your case:
mydomain.com/cat/mobile-3 http://mydomain.com/cat/mobile-3/nokia-2


A structure like that is transparent for the user as well as for search engines.

No one really knows whether this actually affects ranking, but the algorithms definitely won't blame you for transparency.

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