Tips for Website URL Structure

You should keep a few things in mind when planning the navigation structure for your website. These points are given below:

* Follow static URLs for your website pages instead of dynamic URLs
* Follow a directory structure with appropriate levels of pages, the most important ones being on the first level
* Do not go to more than 4 levels deep in your directory structure
* Do not overstuff your URLs with keywords
* Use Mod Rewrite to convert dynamic URLs to Static URLs for your website
* Avoid repeating a keyword in the URLs multiple times. This is explained with the help of an example below
* Use hyphens instead of underscores to separate keywords in a URL structure
* Do not use very long file names or directory names for your website pages
* Avoid using special characters in website URLs