Comment 2 for bug 1285110

great to hear - Thanks!

In General the URL should be as short and as direct as possible. All stuff which is actually only there to add some names with no meaning to a path is waste of SEO ranking. If you need to have a path i.e. for images than even one letter would be sufficient to create the subdirectory. This makes URLs much shorter and give more space to the real important describing part of the URL.

best would be:

mydomain.fqdn/pagename
mydomain.fqdn/pagename/subpagename

we even had very good experience with the possibility to eliminate a middle of the path segment as an option.

i.e.
mydomain.fqdn/pagename/subpagename/myoverview/myarticle

if we now set the don't show middle of the path segment the URL can be modified to be shorter.
i.e. set the don't show middle of the path segment in pagename and in subpagename, than the URL for the article would be

mydomain.fqdn/myoverview/myarticle

as usually articles never have the same URL as usually their title is used it would even be advised to have the don't show middle of path segment also on myoverview.

mydomain.fqdn/myarticle - is in Terms of SEO the best option you can get and it saves a lot of "dead"URL space and you will be able to fill in a longer title which than gets displayed in the URL - good for search engines.

As a result all pages would display as a first level page even their level would be much much lower.
You only would need an "alias" check which checks the title against already existing ones and than warns you if it is really the same. If this is the case than the problem can be easily be solved by changing the title or adding on more sign or number etc.