title: HTML root directory?
body: <p>I'm creating a website and I'm trying to make the url as small as possible and optimize my root directory with as few sub categories as possible. I know that long urls are bad for SEO. Currently, my website has the following menus/pages.</p>
  
  <pre><code>-Home Page (index.html is in the root directory which is good)
  -News  (news.html is currently in the news folder/news.html)
  -Videos (videos.html is currently in the videos folder/videos.html)
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  <p>So my question now is, when someone visits my home page, they get www.mysite.com which is good but if they visit the news page, they get www.mysite.com/news/news.html or /videos/videos.html</p>
  
  <p>Should I put the news.html and videos.html in the root directory where index.html is to make the url shorter (www.mysite.com/news.html)? Do most websites put their news.html in the root directory with the index.html? I'm noticing that most websites put it in the root directory but I'm not sure.  </p>