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Nice contribution dude! I did a quick precursory view of the eBook and looks good. A little lengthy, but still good. I do have two points that should be reconsidered, and those are permalinks and ping settings. I have yet to write about a new discovery concerning permalinks and server efficiency, but will get to that in due time. The other is you really only need pingomatic for pinging. In the old days it may have been necessary for all of those ping sites, but not now.
Thanks for your thoughts, I would like to know more about your discovery using permalinks. I do take your opinion involving pinging and I did have a long conversation about this with another person, I do feel that the huge lists of pinging sites is quite useful to have. Yes the Ebook is quite lengthy but I did want to show everything in detail and using a lot of images. Again thanks for your feedback.
There are the SEO arguments about whether to use category/postname or just postname. That argument is for another thread, and not what concerns me. The problem comes with not using an ID number or DATE up front in the permalink itself. This has to do with the way the rewrites are written, and how the database indexes the permalink. With an ID or DATE, they are numeric, and easily index-able and there are less rewrite definitions in the database. Once your posts start climbing, retrieval takes longer and longer, and the rewrite definitions grow post for post.