As you may well know when you usually view a directory on your computer following a link from a shortcut on your desktop. Don’t you sometime go back a level to check what else is interesting in there? Well this is the same with the internet. If you are going to be using furl with forward slashes this is what you are going to get from users. And this is what I am aiming to do on MSEO.

The main reason why people neglect these types of things is because the programmer doesn’t think like a user. For example all that the programmer would be thinking when writing a script is: is it going to work? Is the feature doing what it is suppose to?

The advantage of having a hierarchical url is that non savvy users like a new comer to the internet may remove parts of the url to see what other content there are regarding the same tag, keyword or forum. Like they use to do on windows explorer.

Another advantage of hierarchical is that you do not lose visitors as they will probably get a error 404 and probably stop at the article or post. But if they did find a bigger list of other articles it would get them to navigate into your site deeper and deeper. Thus getting you more traffic = more people from recommendation = not penalised by google’s back button = more ads displayed = more money.

Well to sum it up; hierarchical url helps users to find themselves deeper in your own site. But you got to be careful on