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Friendly URLS - by date or keyword

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by joepa3, Sep 29, 2009.

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    I am thinking about restructing the URLS on my website. It's fairly new site without a lot of traffic.

    I'm currently using Wordpress with the url structure year/month/slug. Thinking about this further I think it might make more sense from a SEO perspective to not use the year/month but instead use categories or tags? What's the viewpoint of the readers here?
     
    joepa3, Sep 29, 2009 IP
  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    Depends how you have things structured. Sometimes cat name can be useful but 9 times out of ten I use a custom setting of %postname%

    cant go wrong with that really.

    hope that helps
    Nigel
     
    Nigel Lew, Sep 29, 2009 IP
  3. joepa3

    joepa3 Active Member

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    Right, but my concern is preventing Google from seeing duplicate content. So, right now my robots excludes /tags/ and /category/ from the index which means my site links are all based on the year/month. My thinking was if instead my links were based on /category postname I'd get an extra SEO boost?
     
    joepa3, Sep 30, 2009 IP
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    Use the category name for SEO boost and it just looks better
     
    Ruddo, Oct 1, 2009 IP
  5. Jim_Westergren

    Jim_Westergren Notable Member

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    Just %postname% is the best in my opinion for both usability and SEO. Your categories might change in the future and it is not needed in the URL.
     
    Jim_Westergren, Oct 1, 2009 IP
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    The only downside to using %postname% is I've heard of some people having problems down the road. It makes the database think a lot harder, since the URL doesn't have any unique numbers in it. As you continue to add content, it's also possible that you may have pages/posts with similiar slugs.

    It's actually better to use the /%postname%-%post_id% structure. It still keeps the keywords in the front. Plus if I recall, some websites such as Google News require you to have at least three numbers in the URL.
     
    jjwright85, Oct 1, 2009 IP
  7. Earn at Home

    Earn at Home Peon

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    for permalinks i always love %postname%.html
     
    Earn at Home, Oct 1, 2009 IP
  8. jjwright85

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    any specific reason why you like adding the .html to the end?
     
    jjwright85, Oct 1, 2009 IP
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    Date is virtually worthless for your link structure...always go domainname.com/category/page-name
     
    Pixelrage, Oct 1, 2009 IP
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    .html at the end intends to assure that page is static.

    Regards
     
    leebari, Oct 2, 2009 IP
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    For SEO, use the %postname% structure. The date structure is good for organisation.
     
    tangch, Oct 12, 2009 IP
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    postname/month seems to work ok. And it gives the unique number mentioned earlier
     
    deemainer, Oct 15, 2009 IP
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    t0pguy Well-Known Member

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    .html for full blog web. I take .php ad the and when use my script in php and wordpress for blog. So the website under http://xxxxx/blog/xxxxxx.php
    all file look like same cms :)
     
    t0pguy, Oct 15, 2009 IP