Worpress tags - which is best for SE's ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by keblack, Jan 12, 2007.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    Just setting up a wordpress blog and I noticed the choices for url tags (permalinks) are different than normal website url's.

    What is the best tag for search engine purposes ?

    Worpress says that you need a number in the tag ...and they recommend :

    yoursite.com/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/


    I thought the best tag would be :

    yoursite.com/%category%/%postname%/, but they seem to indicate there could be problems putting the category name in there.

    Anyone know the answer to this ?

    Thank you.
     
    keblack, Jan 12, 2007 IP
  2. Austars

    Austars Active Member

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    You are right about the best tag, at least in my opinion. The shorter the URL and with more keywords, the better ;)
     
    Austars, Jan 12, 2007 IP
  3. hughlh

    hughlh Peon

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    The whole thing about a number in the url is nowhere near as important as it used to be with previous versions of WP.

    Category/postname is the way to go.
     
    hughlh, Jan 12, 2007 IP
  4. adsblog

    adsblog Active Member

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    Notice :
    use this style for permalink and get .html links .
    /%category%-%postname%.html
    and use desired keywords on Post Slug .
    you will have a link like this:

    post Slug : new-story-about-iran
    category : stories
    www.domain.com/stories-new-story-about-iran.html
     
    adsblog, Jan 12, 2007 IP
  5. Bagi Zoltán

    Bagi Zoltán Well-Known Member

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    I use the same permalink structure and it works very well:)
     
    Bagi Zoltán, Jan 13, 2007 IP
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    cocaine Well-Known Member

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    Even I am using that method.
     
    cocaine, Jan 13, 2007 IP
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    I personally leave out category and use %postname% only. Although the blog in my profile is using the category tag.
     
    cormac, Jan 13, 2007 IP