Posts' links structure: seo and sem aspects

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by Ludus, Apr 30, 2009.

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    In an under construction blog of mine I don't need to have the usual links structure blog/category/post, as I need to archive, sometimes, a post to 2 categories. Even if I'm not agree to archive an article to 2 categories, in this blog I must do it. Here an example:

    blog about books, categories named with literary genres, I create the category "Children books", that I don't put in the sidebar's list, but I show it in a separated box. I archive a post to the category Western, but also to the one Children books.

    The url can be blog/children-books/post because, using wordpress, in the url it shows the category that appears first in alphabetical order, but I don't want this specific category in the urls.

    So I decided to get this url blog/year/month/day/post but this structure has its own pros and cons:

    Pros:
    • I haven't in the url the category children-books

    Cons:
    • a user see in serp my post and think that this post is very old: so he don't read it .
    • the url is very long

    Another solution is to get the structure blog/post. Here its pros and cons:

    Pros:
    • short url, easy understandable

    Cons:
    • the name of category is not shown, so a user could not understand by the url which section of blog is reading.

    Questions:
    • Is it possible to exclude a category from the urls?
    • Other suggestions?
    Thanks :)

    Hope it's clear :)
     
    Ludus, Apr 30, 2009 IP