Out of 4 types of WordPress Permalinks, one with publishing date and custom one (which can be set to exclude the date) have been popular for SEO. Which one is the best? I mean the one is for SEs and visitors. I currently use the structure with dates because I think those are warmer than the ones without dates. Can there be a huge difference between the impacts of these two? Any observations and suggestions please. webgaya.
I use dates and get very good traffic from Google, but logically not having the date is probably better (date causes longer URLs with non related digits).
The benefit to having /%postname%/ only is obvious, all your post become one level deep. However, if you have a number of posts already, say your using: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ If you change, to just /%postname%/ that whacks out any links you have out there and indexes. Is there some .htaccess magic that will allow the older links to redirect to the new style, making the correct page resolve for that link?
Hi all, After examining, I moved to /%category%/%postname%/ My blog is new and currently I have only 14 posts. I then used 301 redirects to redirect URLs with dates to new ones. Hope I will do well. I chose this structure, because it is more usable to visitors. (They can simply view other posts in the category) IMO Just /%postname%/ has less value for visitors. webgaya.
Yep you will need to copy paste the code presented at the bottom of the Permalinks page once you update the permalinks structure or else just make the .htaccess writable for few mins and once it updates automatically on changing the structure change its permissions again.
/%category%/%postname% is the best I think. Please have a look at blog.seogeek.com I have a problem with the categories counter. Still showing zeros despite more than 800 postings. The author, Sapiens Bryan, wrote to me today as follows: "I think the number of post doesn't show has something to do with the Wordpress code in the theme. You might want to refer to this link to find out the cause : http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats Hope you can solve the problem." I don't know which files/folders need corrections. Anybody can assist me? Thanks.
If you change yours to /% postname%/, will the back links of the previous links still find the page? I think if you already started your site with month/postname then yyou should stick to that unless youre willing to take risk and lose some traffic.