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What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I am working on a job board, and i'm trying to figure out a good design for URL structure.
Some things that I have found through research:
100 - 150 Chars long is ideal
3-5 words in your url, according to Matt Cutts
Use .htaccess to force clean urls
Do not duplicate data (important)
Clean and precise, describing the content
Use hyphens
On the homepage, I try to detect the users location based on IP, but this isn't always accurate, and not always reliable.
So until they put in their city/location, I can't always use this structure but this is potentially work-able.
For Searching, a form post to a results page:
domain.com/jobs/[city]/[search]
ie: domain.com/jobs/toronto/sales manager/
OR
domain.com/search/jobs/toronto/sales manager/
or do I remove the word JOBS and just use Search. I trying to keep good search terms in the URL, but also keep it clean and concise.
Can someone give me some feedback and thoughts to 'why'...
