Changing my permalinks BUT without moving the page.

[Greg Lumley]

Hi! Happy Friday!! 

I'm doing a huge SEO cleanup on my site. At the moment I have urls like:

https://www.greglumley.com/photographer/weddings/creative-wedding-photography/ 

Is there a way to remove "photographer/weddings" from the url without actually moving the page into the root? Of course this would also break any outside links to a specifically moved page too. This would mean I'd also need to setup permanent redirects too.

I'd like the url to read: https://www.greglumley.com/creative-wedding-photography/ instead. 

I've got quite a few pages and I'd like the urls to be much cleaner than they are now.

I'd love any suggestions on what you might do?

 

Thank you so much. 

[millipedia]

My first thought was that URL hooks might help:

https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.173/

my second thought is that if your aim is to improve search rankings then I'm not convinced that this is really going to improve things (and indeed might even make thing worse). Having a concise URL is good for humans but I bet Google doesn't care and may even prefer longer URLs.

Looking at the site I bet your time would be better spent optimising performance; if you can bump up that Lighthouse score for page speed I bet that would make much more of a difference than tweaking URLs.

Great looking pictures though.

 

 

[Greg Lumley]

@millipedia Thank you for your help.

The URL/Path hooks would do the trick. However I'm inclined to agree with you. I bought an SEO course, and concise urls were suggested, I also felt it would be overkill. And does Google care? Especially when it's logically set up. 

Thanks for the suggestion on Lighthouse, I'll definitely put more effort into that.

"Great looking pictures, though." Thank you. 🙏☺️

Hope you're having a great weekend.