Three mounths ago when I start using wordpress I used default permalink from wordpress like this: http://www.example.com/2006/12/11/sample post , but I feel my web page is very slowly to get indexed in big five search engine like google, yahoo, msn, altavista, hotbot. I’m start thinking what it cause? Finally one mounth ago I change my permalink structure be like this: http://www.example.com/sample post/ Oh boy I think its the best permalink structure for search engine friendly because just in 2 week my web page get indexed 2000 page, before I only get indexed 200 page, and it still working until now and my webpage be faster to get indexed in google, yahoo, msn, altavista, hotbot and other search engine. If you want to change your permalink structure in your weblog, you can follow this step: 1. Login to your wp admin area 2. Klik Option 3. Klik Permalinks 4. Choose “Custom, specify below†and enter this : /%postname%/ in this field If you get failed, you must change the change permision on file .htaccess in your cPanel to 666 combination. If you has been change, back to your admin area and repeat step 1-4 Or do you have other opinion or other experience, feel free to comment here. Thank you!
I use the same layout on my link building blog and it works great. Site is relatively new and already ranking for long tail terms. Using this kind of format has got to help the search engines determine the overall theme of your site.
I wonder if changing this on my site will negatively affect it at all. I have fairly good search results listings, and I'd hate to drop down.
I changed it, and it changes all of the ones in the past as well, which I'm concerned about, as they are all mostly listed on google. I wish it would just change the new ones from now on. I have over 2k posts on it, so Im not sure if its worth changing and screwing up my search results. Any thoughts?
@igneous: if you have over 2k posts i recommended dont do it, because it can dropping your page indexed before, i think this permalink is recommended to new blog or weblog...thanks
This is a good advise and I am doing this aswell but not advisable for established blogs. If I had a blog with 5000+ indexed pages I wont bother but anything less then that just go for it and there is a very sound reason for it /xx/xx/xx/xxxxx is seen by google as being very deep in the site and of very less importance and something like/xxxxx will be given more importance wen it comes to serps and will gain rankings without any other factors changing. If you havent spent too much in deep linking your pages then you should definatly go for the change in your structure. Regards Smfseo
Would this cause any problems with same name articles. I mean I hope this would never happen, but if I do accidently name another article the same as one I have already created, what would happen?
I am not sure if placing every single post directly under the root of the domain is a good idea. Say you have a static site with 20k pages. Will you place all the pages under the domain root. (like, domain.com/page1/, domain.com/pag2/ etc) But as you have pointed out, a permenant link structure like http://www.example.com/2006/12/11/sample post also is not the best way to do. How about http://www.example.com/category/sample post ? All you have to is add, /%category%/%postname%/
@peaches: if you have 2 same subject it will automaticaly different by numeric like this yourdomain/your-post-2/ If you want be sure you can test it by posting 2 same subject twice Thanks...
You are right about placing every post directly under the root is nto a good idea as long as you are talkin about personal blogs but when it comes to competing against well established blogs and for very competetive keywords it does give an edge and goes a long way I have experimented on this on 4 seperate blogs with a lot of keywords and it does make a huge difference on serps More clicks it takes to get to the post from the home page, less important it is for google. Dont correct me if you think I am wrong coz its you who needs to do some more learning