I have a question about the custom permalink structure

I have a question about the custom permalink structure: does it make any difference if I choose either one of the following two:

/%postname%

or

/%postname%/

In other words, does it make any difference if I use /%postname% (without the final slash) or /%postname%/ (with the final slash) ?

Thank you for your help,

Robert

 

My understanding is that its less resource intensive to use /%postname%/ but with regard to SEO it doesn't make a difference.

 

Yea, as long as search engines can read your post title

 

i use this structure /%postname%.html

 

The only difference in those to permalinks is if you want to have a slash at the end of your filename..

For example:

www.mydomain.com/about
OR
www.mydomain.com/about/


As far as resource intensive goes

/%category%/ AND
/%postname%/ are both very resource intensive because they are text fields and at the beginning of your permalink structure. It of course takes time for Wordpress to distinguish between post names and page names.

For SEO purposes I would recommend postname since it is cleaner and provides "Keywords", not to mention it's a short url.

I hope this helps and clears things up for you.

 

This does not make a difference at all my friend as you have nothing following the %postname% tag. If there would have been something following the tag, only then it would have made a difference...