Machine Shops & CNC Website Structure Guide

Quick answer

A well-structured site for machine shops organizes around machine capability and tolerance pages, turnaround and prototyping pages, material capability pages, quality and inspection pages — with clear navigation to each, not buried behind a generic "Services" menu.

What the top-level navigation should include

Each of these deserves its own clear place in navigation, not a sub-menu three clicks deep:

  • machine capability and tolerance pages
  • turnaround and prototyping pages
  • material capability pages
  • quality and inspection pages

Where most sites get the hierarchy wrong

No equipment list or tolerance capability published, which is the first technical thing an engineer checks before sending an RFQ.

URL structure

Keep URLs short, descriptive, and matched to the page's actual content — a URL that matches the page's real topic (rather than an internal project code or generic ID) helps both visitors and search engines understand the page before they even click.

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