Blank Sub directories and SEO

  • The plugin I am using creates subdirectories based on the elements I create in each category. For example example.com/category/element shows the content I created with the plugin. If you were to type in example.com/category/ it would come back as a page not found because the plugin doesn’t automatically populate the category subdirectory. Is this a problem for SEO or site structure? I feel like a category should have a page for good taxonomy.

    I have been told in another forum as long as there are no links to the example.com/category/ page, it doesn’t affect SEO. My question is, wouldn’t the search bot see the example.com/category/element that is linked to, and work backward, ultimately noticing the missing category page?

    If you need more clarification please ask. I am improving my technical vocabulary, but I don’t know all the correct terms yet.

    Thanks for your help

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  • All taxonomy root URLs have this problem. You can see it on any WordPress site. But apparently, it’s not really a problem. It’s just a page that is not defined. If you want something at that address, just create a page with that slug and put what you think should be there.
    I wrote a theme, and it supplies a page template for the taxonomy root pages. It uses the slug to look up the matching taxonomy and lists all the terms.

    Thread Starter tydogwr

    (@tydogwr)

    Thank you for responding. I guess this is one of those things that SEO experts can argue about. Logically it seems like each root should have content, as you said.

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