Referring to the thread title, I'm talking about the %postname% stuff in Wordpress. There's several options, which would end up being the best for SEO purposes? 1. www.blog.com/this-is-a-post This one seems the most obvious but Wordpress doesn't recommend using it because of messed up things with wp-admin and stuff. Anyone here use it with successful results? 2. www.blog.com/yyyy/mm/dd/this-is-a-post I think most blogs use this one, any luck with it? 3. www.blog.com/category/this-is-a-post I was thinking about using this one, because the categories I will be using for my blog are also going to be keywords. I've only seen a couple blogs who use this, but is there really any benefit from using this over the others? 4. Alternatives Any alternatives that would be better than those three? Thanks for your help, rep will be added for especially helpful answers.
Showing your top 10 posts in home page will also good for SEO in terms of Canonicalization as google will pick the best url from several choice.
The first might be best from purely a SEO perspective, since at least Yahoo! dislikes long with multiple slashes. I've seen many sites that use it successfully, but I have no experience of Wordpress personally, so I can't tell if there's problems with it or not. I'd go with the last one, since it's not too long, and your pages may get ranked for the category keyword, too.