Default » http://mysite.com/?p=123 Date and name based » http://mysite.com/2008/04/18/sample-post/ Numeric » http://mysite.com/archives/123 Custom, specify below Custom structure:/%postname%/ Write now I have it set up for postname. I would suspect though this option would be search engine friendly but with all the dashes between the post name the search engines might think it is spammy. Would anyone have any experience in SEO and WP to say which selection works best?
I'm not sure if its better for SEO purposes but I always use the custom structure urls. Mainly because it looks tidier and makes more sense to me Apart from the default one I haven't used any of the others, so can't really comment on them
Even if it looks like this ... mysite.com/this-is-the-best-forum-around The point being some posts will have a long title with lots of dashes.
The dashes are the best for SEO, search engines will read them like a human. Much better than a number or special characters. You could also set the address to a shorter phrase in wordpress 2.5 when writing the article, while still having a long title.
I prefer- 'Date and name based" because it gives all details to the search engines. Even you can customize it...
If you don't want your blog post to have such long URLs, change them completely under Post Slug when writing your blog post. A http://www.bloggingblahblah.com/how-to-spam-your-ass-off-google-yahoo-msn-DP.html can be shorten into something like http://www.bloggingblahblah.com/spam-google-yahoo-msn.html
I prefer date and name based, as it looks much detailed and helps in fast indexing. Most of the SEOs recommend this one!
its a best PERMALINk structure for seo coz spider can read file name easily and users also like this structure. However if u don't want to use u can try date and month based permalinks. /%category%/%postname%/ /%category%/%postname%.html