: Is it better to use slash or hyphens for SEO I have a website with url like that : www.xxxxxx.com/card/wow/20-euros In term of SEO is it better to use slash or hyphen? www.xxxxxx.com/card-wow-20-euros

@Hamaas447

I personally would view this from a content point of view rather than an SEO one, which eventually leads back to the seo destination anyway I guess...
xxxxxx.com/card/wow/20-euros
If you have content you want to place on the "card" or "wow"[plus siblings] pages, then use slashes.

If you don't have any preceding content that you want above the "20-euros" page then go ahead and maybe concatenate the whole term into "card-wow-20-euros"...

As I've said in the comment to DKOATED's answer, doing your entire site in this way would make it look incredibly flat and wide to search engines, with no discernible hierarchy

This is only my own personal and professional opinion though...

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@Jessie594

General rule of thumb is, the closer you are to your root domain, the better. It is said, that Google weights subfolders in descending order. For example:
xxxxxx.com/card/wow/20-euros 2 .1 /3 /4 /5 5


That basically means, that your domain gets the highest rankingpower for its word(s), followed by the subdomain (if any), then position 3, 4, 5, etc.

And as Matt Cutts (from Google) stated (and recommends as a best practice): Google treats hyphens in URLs as a word separator, which basically says this:
xxxxxx.com/card-wow-20-euros 2 .1 /3 3 3 3


This allows all four words in your URL to score the same rankpower for each keyword: card 3, wow 3, 20 3, euros 3 instead of card 3, wow 4, 20 5, euros 5.

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