WordPress Permalinks SEO Question

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majordude

Newbie

Feb 12, 2009

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• Feb 15, 2009

• #1

For SEO, does it matter if the link is:

domain.com/category/post
domain.com/post/
domain.com/post
domain.com/post.html

 

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bizcredit

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Apr 1, 2008

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• Feb 15, 2009

• #2

at LEAST have the postname.. i've done well for some keywords just using postname, category could help though

 

justthinking

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Aug 13, 2008

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• Feb 15, 2009

• #3

I agree with biz. I normally use category/postname, but at least use the post name.

 

Erik

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Dec 14, 2008

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• Feb 15, 2009

• #4

if you have a lot of categories,yes use them, if you have 4 or less, there really is no need.

 

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seoconsultant2005

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Dec 9, 2008

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• Feb 15, 2009

• #5

how to configure permalinks in blog

 

steveJD

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Nov 29, 2008

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• Feb 15, 2009

• #6

Goto settings>permalinks then make custom permalinks and add this code for category and postname.

Code:

/%category%/%postname%/

 

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duca

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Sep 18, 2008

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• Feb 15, 2009

• #7

seoconsultant2005 said:

how to configure permalinks in blog

Click to expand...

As steveDj said, and don't forget to update your .htaccess file with:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

or if your wordpress instalation is in folder (not root(, then:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /foo/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /foo/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Regards

 

skyfox

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May 13, 2008

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• Feb 16, 2009

• #8

You should just be able to go into settings/permalinks, WP will take care of the rest... I've never had to manually edit my .htaccess for permalinks...

 

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idomo

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Dec 21, 2008

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• Feb 16, 2009

• #9

Yeah, I normally use /%category%/%postname%/

 

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freudianslip27

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Oct 6, 2007

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• Feb 16, 2009

• #10

You also want to be careful of URL Canonization. It has to do with having different linking structures on your blog and making sure they are all the same.

This is the best guide i've found about it:

Code:

http://www.jimwestergren.com/wordpress-users-sharpen-your-urls-with-google/

 

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majordude

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Feb 12, 2009

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• Feb 16, 2009
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• #11

I've done both but I haven't done enough to see if there is a pattern.

I kinda think that /%category%/%postname%/ could produce a "silo" structure which might be good as long as there aren't links to other categories or posts (in other categories).

 

mike2000

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Feb 14, 2009

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• Feb 18, 2009

• #12

domain.com/post is the best way to go.
It is more SEO friendly

 

Blackhat_Guru

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Mar 6, 2009

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• Apr 4, 2009

• #13

If you look at ezine articles.com, which is known to have one of the best silo structure, due to the number of categories it has.

All they use is /%postname%=%postid%

Search engines, figure out which category the post is located in.

I personally use /%postname%.HareKrishna

instead of /%postname%.html

why .HareKrishna

More people tend to bookmark pages ending with .HareKrishna, as long as their is NO porn, gambling, meat recipes or casual dating/whoring site. (or else you will get thumbs down on digg)

Ive gotten a lot of thumbsup on my pages, that are clean.

 

Blackhat_Guru

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Mar 6, 2009

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• Apr 4, 2009

• #14

Be sure to use SEO title tags plugin to go with it, so that adsense will display more relevant ads.

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http://www.nrisoft.com/h1b-transfer.html

 

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kigol

Newbie

May 5, 2008

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• Apr 5, 2009

• #15

I've used this format with good results:

/%category%/%postname%/