Flexible URLs? WEMASY made it possible

Have you visited websites that have deep sitemaps? You start at the homepage, click into a category, then a subcategory, then filters and more. And then you are five pages inside. Then you take a look at the very long URL that shows the entire navigation. And sometimes when you try sharing the link, it runs down five lines in your chat. Sounds too much, right?

That is exactly how the crawlers of the search engine will feel with long URL structures. Long URL structures quietly hurt how search engines see your site, and how people share or trust your links. There is more to it. Read the problem in this blog and how WEMASY has managed to solve it.

Why are long URLs bad?

Long URLs may look like a nice map to you in the search bar. However, it does more bad than good. Let’s read about it here.

1. The priority gets lost:

The audience wants something clean and fast. They do not want to know the map behind getting to a certain page unless it is necessary. Let’s take an example. Take a look at these two URLs

URL 1: wemasy.com/blogs/informational-section/how-to-write-a-blog

URL 2: wemasy.com/how-to-write-a-blog

Which URL do you think does the job of telling the viewer what the priority is about? It is the second one. When a page sits several levels deep, both people and crawlers read it as harder to reach. Users treat it like a secondary page and visit it less often from the main menu. Even the search engine crawlers tend to revisit it less frequently, which slows updates and can cap rankings.

2. The clicks on the link and shares drop

How many times have your friends sent you long URL links, and how many times have you ignored them because you do not have the patience to read them, and you do not find them safe?

Very long links wrap across multiple lines in chat, email, and social previews. They look complicated and risky. Short, readable paths feel safer, fit cleanly in previews, and earn more taps and copies.

3. Direct and recall traffic fall

The human mind remembers something short, crisp, and easy to remember. People do not remember maze-like addresses. If they cannot say it once and type it correctly later, they will not come back directly or search for the brand by name. Simple paths improve repeat visits and word of mouth. The complicated ones make it hard for people to remember and drop the traffic.

4. The crawlers’ efficiency goes down

When your pages sit behind many URL levels, the search engine crawlers have to go through extra steps to reach them. Updates on those deep pages are found later. Shorter, simpler URLs help search engines get to important pages faster.

A sitemap is useful to help the crawlers crawl on the website and rank the pages. But it cannot fully fix slow discovery caused by very deep paths. Clear internal links and URLs help the pages get quickly noticed by crawlers. If key pages are linked from your header or homepage, the crawlers reach them sooner.

Flexible URLs are the problem’s solution

You just saw how deep paths confuse people and slow crawlers. The fix is simple. Keep your logical structure for navigation, and publish short public URLs for the pages that matter most. Flexible links - either short or well thought have their own advantages.

• Important pages can live near the root without breaking categories.

• Links are short, easy to read, and easy to share in chat and email.

• People remember the address and can type it after hearing it once.

• People remember the address and can type it after hearing it once.

• Support and sales can say the link on a call without spelling it out.

• You stay in control, page by page, as priorities change.

How can you flexibly build the page URLs? WEMASY system helps you do it.

We saw teams struggle with rigid, deep URLs that made good pages look unimportant. So we built WEMASY’s Website Builder to keep your structure tidy while giving you control over the public path. Here’s how flexible you can go with your URL structures.

1. You can start from the home page and directly take the user to the last blog or product page, skipping all the category pages that come in between.

2. You choose the exact URL for any page, post, product, or category.

3. When you change a slug, we create a permanent redirect and refresh the sitemap.

4. You set the canonical so that the primary address collects all signals.

5. Breadcrumbs and menus keep the true hierarchy even if the public URL is short.

6. All of this is self-serve, without codes and headaches, so you don't need a developer ticket to fix a path.

7. For online stores whose products are shared the most, you can keep category logic intact and still promote a high-value subcategory to a top-level destination without breaking filters or breadcrumbs.

Get ready to become flexible while structuring the pages with WEMASY’s no-code, DIY sitebuilder. The system is built for you so you can build your website and the brand the way you want. Get started today!