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bigalownz · 07-29-2009, 10:19 PM

whats better Permalink Settings ??

http://blog.downunderporn.com/?p=123

http://blog.downunderporn.com/2009/07/30/sample-post/

http://blog.downunderporn.com/2009/07/sample-post/

http://blog.downunderporn.com/archives/123

CYF · 07-29-2009, 10:21 PM

The second option or third option.

PornMD · 07-29-2009, 10:29 PM

On one of my mainstream blogs where I have targeted keywords both as categories and within my post titles, I do mydomain/category-name/post-title. I've seen cases made for simply mydomain/post-title as well as for mydomain/post#/post-title (both would be better if you intend to use multiple categories so that you only have 1 unique slug). I've seen date both advised and not advised and I only remember the reason for not advising it being for when it starts getting old and you don't want any more added emphasis on how old a post might be.

baddog · 07-29-2009, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by CYF

The second option or third option.

MediaGuy · 07-29-2009, 10:33 PM

If your "sample-post" is a key-worded folder/location, then yes two or three - some might say three is best because it's not as deep as two.

Number one tails with a dynamic/variable instance, and it's always best to bury those somewhere in the middle of a url, or not have them at all.

Just numbering a folder without keywording isn't as effective as just keywording or keyword plus number...

:D

garce · 07-29-2009, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PornMD

On one of my mainstream blogs where I have targeted keywords both as categories and within my post titles, I do mydomain/category-name/post-title. I've seen cases made for simply mydomain/post-title as well as for mydomain/post#/post-title (both would be better if you intend to use multiple categories so that you only have 1 unique slug). I've seen date both advised and not advised and I only remember the reason for not advising it being for when it starts getting old and you don't want any more added emphasis on how old a post might be.

Those are not particularly good suggestions on how to build permalinks in wordpress: http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/...ess-permalinks

Darkhorse · 07-29-2009, 10:56 PM

I don't use WP for my blogs but ours are siteurl/article/brittany-in-sexy-lesbian-duet-with-younger-hottie

For example......

Ginn · 07-29-2009, 11:15 PM

Personally i use domain/postname an almost all my blogs. Works pretty good for me

PornMD · 07-29-2009, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by garce

Those are not particularly good suggestions on how to build permalinks in wordpress: http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/...ess-permalinks

Some things:

1. Notice nowhere in the article does the author mention SEO. The OP here was asking for which was best from an SEO standpoint. So not sure what that article has to do with my suggestions.

2. From the author within comments: "Again, using a simple URL structure like /%postname%/ is not going to cause problems for 99% of the sites out there. It might detract from site performance, if your site has a huge number of pages, and if your site handles a large number of hits per second." Granted there's a point to the fact that it checks against pages AND posts if category or postname is used first, so going with just /post-name may slow load times when there's a lot of posts.

3. More comments from people on that post:

"You guys are making this too complicated.. MySQL, PHP, and computers LOVE numbers.. just put a unique number (like an article ID) in the first parameter of the URL.. example: /10022/I_love_this_article_from_my_blog/.. MySQL will find this FAST (searching for 10022) and the person reading the blog will like the pretty permalink.. as far as categories go, if you want people to find categories in your URL then list the category AFTER the number and before the pretty post name.. but again, why make it difficult? You are looking for database efficiency and speed here, right?" (this was one of my suggestions and does take care of the issue the author was mentioning)

"Dates in the URL might look appropriate for a true Blog, but %category%/%postname% is far more user friendly, and many visitors will instinctively know to trim the URL to see the category home page." (what I use on my own site - as mentioned it's very visitor friendly and as I mentioned, it would not be advisable if more than one category would be used per post...in the case of my blog, a lot of people look up posts by category so IMO the structure I use is very intuitive for visitors not to mention SEO friendly...any slightly longer load time I'll happily take to get more traffic and please that traffic)

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