My messy site planning – Page Vs Category Vs Multisite or else?

[laurentcastilho]

Hello,

Im planning a local tourist guide for few cities in my country but I can’t figure out the website planning for this project. Here it goes:

My ideal Url strategy is:
tour.pt/city/category/sub-category

If /city/ is itself a category I have a problem, because will be a category conflict, for example:
tour.pt/city-1/what-to-do/sub-category
tour.pt/city-2/what-to-do/sub-category

I cant have /what-to-do/ category to both city-1 and city-2 category hierarchy without compromising my category planning..

Should the /city/ be a individual page with a custom menu for each? Even this way I would have a category conflict and I would have to change the category name for each place..

Should I go multisite subdomain style: city-1.tour.pt/category? That doesnt make much sense since it’s a small project with little content per city/local, but it would work.

This is another pratical example
tour.pt/algarve/where-to-stay/hotels/best-hotels-in-algarve
being: home.pt/category-1/category-1.1/category-1-1-1/post
Should this be: home.pt/page-1/category-1/category-1.1/post

This way I will get a messy content conflict, because “hotels” is a shared category, that can have diferent parents, because It suits all cities.

I really don’t know out to proceed beacause I only worked in single topic/product/company projects before, and since now I can have many topics (cities) I dont know what strategy is best.

Check these ones out for better picture:
http://imgur.com/Xiz62Vr
http://imgur.com/NVL0URP

Thanks in advance,
Laurent

[Susan]

As you posted this a while ago, I hope you were able to get your issue resolved. If it is resolved, please mark this thread as “resolved”, so it can be closed.

If you are still having issues, report back here, and I will try to escalate.

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