Permalinks Questions

[ponyman]

Is there any benefit or disadvantage to having the month and day in the permalink? Especially considering SEO?

example: http://www.domain.com/2010/12/extreme-asian-fucking/

vs: http://www.domain.com/2010/12/18extreme-asian-fucking/

[Simon]

My suggestion is not to include date information in the permalink if you think you'll ever want to rotate any posts back into first position, either manually or using something like the oldest2newest plugin.

As far as SEO benefits I have nowhere near enough data to even guess.

HTH

[Maj. Stress]

I use this in the "custom structure"
/%category%/%postname%/

[ponyman]

Started using this in the custom structure: /%postname%/

Thanks for the help

[Simon]

You might want to rethink using only the postname in the URL.

# For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs (which always use the text "page slug" as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to have at least two path segments in your post's permalink structure such as /%year%/%post_name%/ or even /posts/%post_name/. (Some people recommend /%post_id%/%post_name%/ which works for performance reasons but others recommend against it because it is unfriendly to users in the many contexts in which users interact with URLs.) See Otto's technical writeup on the topic as well as this wp-testers discussion.

This is from:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks


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[oldbrad]

I wonder if it make a difference to use http://www.domain.com/category_base/category/ when you are using the http://www.domain.com/%category%/%postname%/ method. Since you are using the base, is it still confused between /category/post and /category_base/category/.

Because the base is used, seems like the page and post urls will be easier to separate. I hope so at least, because thats how I have quite a few blogs set up lol.

[faxxaff]

Originally Posted by ponyman

Is there any benefit or disadvantage to having the month and day in the permalink? Especially considering SEO?

example: http://www.domain.com/2010/12/extreme-asian-fucking/

vs: http://www.domain.com/2010/12/18extreme-asian-fucking/

It depends on your post. If your post is related to an event at said time, it might be of use to a visitor who seeks particular sensitive information ... i.e. publications of a model before she married a some rich tycoon.

For SEO it does not really matter, but usually it's better to keep urls short.