Category/subcategory Hierarchy

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  jide18 · Member · Jan 21, 2018 at 10:49 pm

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  The current issue I’m facing is that I have categories with the same subcategory names, and as you are probably aware you cannot have the same slug twice within wordpress. This has resulted in ugly, long and keyword repetitions (which I’m concerned about as I don’t know if this is classed as keyword stuffing). For example “domain.com/baby/baby-carts”

  This is going to be a large site so a category hierarchy is going to be useful. At the moment I have my permalink structure set to post name only but if you could think of a logical solution that would be fantastic. Then I can swap to category/postname.

  In any case what do you propose? Is it OK to have the parent category word repeated in the subcategory slug? Or not?

  domain.com/kids/kids-clothes
  domain.com/baby/baby-clothes
  domain.com/toddler/toddler-clothes

  Would this be SEO friendly and user friendly or do you have any other suggestion? I would greatly appreciate some advice with this.

  In an ideal world I would prefer

  domain.com/kids/clothes
  domain.com/baby/clothes
  domain.com/toddler/clothes

  But it doesn’t seem like this is achievable with wordpress?

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  theakshaydhiman · Member · Jan 22, 2018 at 4:45 pm

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  Hello jode18, as Matt Cutts talks about this exact question in this video, it really doesn’t matter.

  In my opinion, the shorter the length and descriptive enough, the better your URL.

  An alternative way to organize your categories and sub-categories could be:

  domain.com/clothes/kids
  domain.com/clothes/baby
  domain.com/clothes/toddler

  Hope this helps and for any further questions, let us know.