Google’s John Mueller said that including the category name or topic name in your url slug won’t affect your ranking in any way. I’m not 100% sure he really meant NULL, but he used a GIF that says NULL.
Here is the set of tweets on Twitter so that you can see it for yourself:
– 🧀 John 🧀 (@JohnMu) December 9, 2021
I mean, Google said both in 2021 and 2020 that keywords in URLs have minimal impact – not no impact – after the page is indexed. But I think it’s close to zero?
The question here was, “How important is it to have a category / topic in the url slug?” Just said zero.
Forum discussion at Twitter.