Search engine friendly URLs plugin for WordPress

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by AHA7, Dec 14, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    Is there any good search-engine-friendly-URLs plugin for WordPress that replaces the normal URLs with keyword-rich, SE-friendly URLs?
     
    AHA7, Dec 14, 2006 IP
  2. Richie_Ni

    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    No need to get a plugin,simply change your permalink structure!
     
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  3. AHA7

    AHA7 Peon

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    OK, I have just learnt about this! Thanks!
    But ther's a little problem; when I change the Permalink Structure from 'Default' to 'Date and name based' all the images on other pages break! When I set it back to 'Default' they work again. The page link with the 'Default' Permalink Structure contains an id, but it only contains the page's title with the 'Date and name based' option! How can I solve this?
     
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    Resolved now!

    I figured out the problem!
    When using date and name in the URL it'll create subdirectories for each posy, for example, a post with title 'new post' created on 12/14/2006 will have the URL: www.blogname.com/2006/12/14/new-post/ and so when the source of the image is defined as <img src="/img/img1.gif"> it'll search the subdirectory /new-post/ for 'img/img1.gif' which is not there of cource, it's in www.blogname.com/img/img1.gif.
    So instead of using <img src="/img/img1.gif"> in the source I am now using <img src="http://www.blogname.com/img/img1.gif"> but my question is: will this make the images load slower? Is this a bad practice?
     
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  5. Richie_Ni

    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    Nope IMO..
     
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    Consider using <img src="http://www.blogname.com/img/img1.gif"> ... if your blogname is keyword rich.. its good for SEO! ;)

    Little things matter.
     
    cynovatron, Dec 20, 2006 IP
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    Edit your .htaccess file once you update the permalink structure or some "default" links won't work anymore (only have to edit .htaccess) but some modules will require you to reapply permalink structure from time to time.
     
    modcase, Dec 20, 2006 IP
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    CHMOD it to 777 and there won't be any problem.
     
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    add a title attribute or alt attribute. SE like that :)

    BTW, if you don't add full URL it will save you few bytes of total document size.
     
    Zeo, Dec 22, 2006 IP