Permalink : /%postname%/ or /%category%/%postname%/

Just wanted to get everyone's opinion on which of the following permalink structures for Wordpress yields the best results and why:

/%postname%/

or

/%category%/%postname%/

As of yet, my testing with both these methods has yet to prove anything conclusive.

Thanks!

 

I think that it depends on your blog / website actually.
What is it about?
For example, for my movie website, I use /%category%/%postname%/ because I included the keyword movie as a main category so it should help SEO (not sure though)

 

I post articles on my blog and the best permalink is /%post_id%/%postname%/ and is working great for indexing.

 

I always use category/post for seo reasons

 

I like /%postname%.html because it looks pretty

 

Yeas that's right.

If you're making a niche blog/website then go with /%category%/%postname%/ it's more keywords rich. /%postname%/ is good for most blogs.

 

I just use %postname% Because I know there will not be overlapping in the titles, however if I was running a show site some names might overlap besides it would help SEO if in the season of Dexter it had /%category%/%postname%/

So it depends what site it is, but I usually like 99% of the time would stick with just %postname% because shorter, more human readable URL's make G love you more maybe I take it to the extreme in this case but I highly doubt it.

 

I've started to use these... depends ont eh blog though

/%post_id%/%postname%.html
/%post_id%/%category%/%postname%.html

using post_id more often now because i read a really good explanation on here of how post_id actually may may your blog faster...