Which was is better for SEO?

Which way is better to setup permalinks on your blog for SEO purposes and why?:

 

I always use a custom structure of "/%postname%" - for obvious reasons, try it out

 

Ok cool. I've actually started to do it that way also.

What about for the categories? Do you just use /topics/ or something else?

 

Is this option available (customizing URLs) for blogs hosted on Wordpress?

 

of course yes. and also in the last version of WP, you can manually edit the permanent link for the page/post you write..

 

I use the custom permalink structure myself. /%category%/%postname% is what I use though.

I also use a plugin like Top Level Categories or Category Base Killer to remove /category/ from the URL structures in my category and posts pages (in other words, example.com/category/category-name/post-name/ becomes example.com/category-name/post-name.html).

 

/%postname%-%post_id% is a better url

 

I will go with category than post name, it will make some sense.
Id i not required for real human visitors.

 

Is it better to have it show it ends in the .html? I read that somewhere but it didn't say if it was better or not.

 

i also use "/%postname%" its better for me so u will have the link like that www.yoursite.com/your-post-title
and u could add %category% so u will have www.yousite.com/category/your-post-title that will give u extra keyword u could choise the best for u by ur self

 

Removing the category base will cause all sorts of problems if you don't include a file extension with your blog posts. It sucks, and I wish the WordPress developers would FIX IT, but so far they haven't shown ANY inclination towards doing so.

The "file extension hack" has to be used whether you use a plugin to remove the category base or edit the rewrite.php file itself.