Is this url ok for seo? (wordpress)

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by bon300187, Sep 21, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey i have a site im making and have used the custom permalinks structure in the options, it's set to %postname%.

    This works great but a post i have made has a '-' in so when you go to the url it looks like this:

    .../post-title-%e2%80%93-rest-of-post-title/

    Is this ok for seo purposes or shouldi change it?

    cheers
     
    bon300187, Sep 21, 2007 IP
  2. Pixelrage

    Pixelrage Peon

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    #2
    I would definitely change it
     
    Pixelrage, Sep 21, 2007 IP
  3. bon300187

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    #3
    Do you know how to change it? I'm not really good at that side of thing with wordpress.
     
    bon300187, Sep 21, 2007 IP
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    #4
    Could you paste or give an example of that post slug? Is it like this:

    this-is-my-title

    or this:

    this-is--my-title

    It really shouldn't be doing that, if you have the style seen in the 1st example
     
    Pixelrage, Sep 21, 2007 IP
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    anions Notable Member

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    #5
    Could you post the link here?
    Anyways, tt should be ok as long as its only one post.
     
    anions, Sep 22, 2007 IP
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    sat123 Banned

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    #6
    yes provide url...i don't follow how thatlink would be like
     
    sat123, Sep 22, 2007 IP
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    #7
    a dash (-) comes by default if you are using space in your title!
     
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    #8
    the dash is fine, its the %e9.... that i was wanting to to fix.

    the post slug is : post-title-%e2%80%93-rest-of-post-title

    any ideas?
     
    bon300187, Sep 23, 2007 IP
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    #9
    Changing by going to the Permalinks section in Wordpress dashboard. Select Custom and write "%postname%" (without quotes) in the text boxes. So, it'll only show the name of the post. Eg: yoursite.com/postname/
     
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  10. bon300187

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    i know, thats what it is set to but if i make a post called "Example - Part 1"

    the url is ....example-%e2%80%93-part-1
     
    bon300187, Sep 23, 2007 IP
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    #11
    this is a problem with wordpress as it don't keep "-" (dash) as dash but converts into the numeric code. You can't do much about as far as I know(I myself searched for it) just void using it or better, first publish the post without - as title, than immediately edit it and add the - in title. So your url won't be having the code and your title will be having the "-"

    I hope I am clear enough :)
     
    poseidon, Sep 24, 2007 IP
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    #12
    so i guess its still a problem on the latest wordpress version?
     
    Bishio, Sep 24, 2007 IP
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    #13
    ahh nice one, didnt think of that lol. i even tried removing it but the url remained the same.

    Top tip cheers mate. By the way i found out on wordpress that the : doesnt alter the url so i decided togo with that :)
     
    bon300187, Sep 25, 2007 IP