I know this is nothing to do with the theme per se but I would like some advice on category hierarchy.
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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Hello jadmac,
Notice that we do not recommend using the same name for more than one category. You should try to make some tests with this structure and check the results.
domain.com/kids/kids-clothes
domain.com/baby/baby-clothes
domain.com/toddler/toddler-clothes
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the message!
