URL Structure
In one line
URL structure is the deliberate hierarchy and pattern of your URLs — from domain through directories to slug — designed so both users and search engines can read where a page sits in your site.
Going deeper
URL structure is the skeleton you set before you ever lay out a sitemap. The basics are a clear hierarchy — 'domain/category/subcategory/slug' — and the discipline to keep the pattern consistent.
Two early decisions tend to dominate: how deep the hierarchy goes, and whether categories show up in the path. Too deep and click depth dilutes authority; too flat and the taxonomy collapses once the site scales.
Restructuring after launch means site-wide redirects, which is why URL structure ends up entangled with information architecture and content strategy. Settling it early is by far the cheapest path.
Related terms
URL Slug
A URL slug is the trailing path segment of a page URL — a short, lowercase identifier that signals what the page is about both to readers and to search engines.
SEOTechnical SEO
Technical SEO is the infrastructure-level work — crawling, indexing, rendering, speed, structured data — that makes a site readable and rankable for search engines in the first place.
SEOSubdomain
A subdomain is a separately addressed prefix in front of your root domain (blog.example.com) — and the long-running counterpart in the 'subdomain vs subfolder' SEO debate.
SEOOn-Page SEO
On-page SEO is the work you do inside a page itself — title, headings, body copy, internal links — to align it with search intent and make ranking signals legible to engines.
SEOBlog SEO
Blog SEO is the version of content SEO tailored to blog formats — topic clusters, internal linking discipline and publishing cadence — and the most familiar SEO surface in the Korean market.
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