: Website structure with multiple sub directories We are going to work on a new project which is a website that contains many details of commercial companies in an area. People can search for

@Connie744

This is too much opinion but I'll answer anyway. You are doing too much description in the URL. A restaurant is a category so no need to prefix it with "category". restaurant-tavern-bistro ... we get it ... don't throw the kitchen sink in there, too. example.be/restaurants, we get it.

But are all tavern's restaurants? Will you be cluttering drink-only taverns in that category, too? And aren't all bistros restaurants?

So, example.com/restaurants is good enough. If a tavern serves food, put it under restaurants and also under bars or taverns.

And don't go with example.be/company/company. See the redundancy? Why not example.be/company/details? Or example.be/restaurant/company/details?

With URLs, you are mainly trying to help search engines find their way around your site. Using these steps help them find the bottom. Most people won't be typing those urls into the address bar so length doesn't always play into it.

With theatre companies I built, one does more than just theatre. They also do radio plays. So theatre.com/theatre/name-of-play and theatre.com/radio/name-of-radio-play. But you can also find the play with theatre.com/name-of-play.

You can also do theatre.com/theatre/play/cast and theatre.com/play/cast-member but this can drive you crazy.

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