Comments on: SEO 2.0 Basics: WordPress URL Design

By: onreact

onreact — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:43:04 +0000

Exactly, but there is only one letter missing in my version of your link and it already gets “not found”.

In contrast when using a number you can write any text behind it and the link will still work.

By: ElectroGeek

ElectroGeek — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:48:14 +0000

@onreact Here is the corrected url:
http://electrogeek.com/blog/2008/03/16/commentluv-wordpress-plugin-increased-blog-traffic-bad-for-ad-sales/

That one works.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:36:50 +0000

this is good article.. i like it.. i usually just use /%postname%/

and for anon, why using /%postname%? ??? for?

By: anon

anon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:19:47 +0000

Please tell me, ¿What is the better /%postname%/ or /%postname%?, thank you.

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:12:47 +0000

I agree with Bobby D regarding the new admin panel. I love using it. Here is the official WP permalink guide, which I successfully used today: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

By: Bobby D

Bobby D — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:17:05 +0000

In my experience this whole article is pretty moot, as the priority placed upon domains and URL strings is MUCH lower than many other search engine impacting factors involved in the structure of your site.

Anyway you look at it, though, if you manage your category names well enough that you’re writing is contextually relevant, you should have no need to modify the permalinks in WP at all. The best thing you can do for your blog or website to optimize it for Search Engines is write relevant content that acts as link-bait. Everything else should fall into place after that.

Also, I must be honest; the admin panel of WP2.7 is really nice. I mean, it could be worse… you could be using Drupal.

Also, could you speak further to the points you made about WP being bloated and vulnerable to security attacks? I’d like to know you made both of those statements in the first paragraph and didn’t back them up with any evidence in the article.

By: onreact

onreact — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:06:55 +0000

Yeah, thanks for the tip. I’ll change that soon.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:27:06 +0000

Hi,

Could I ask you the favor of replacing the WordPress logo in your post with an official one from http://wordpress.org/about/logos/ ?

The logo you are using has the wrong proportions. Given that this post is the #1 result for a Google image search for WordPress, it would be great to have it show the correct image. Thank you!

By: Busby

Busby — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:49:31 +0000

I like this permalink better :
domainname/postname.htm
instead of only postname, I add .htm at the end.

By: yuri

yuri — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:21:28 +0000

http://www.tomrafteryit.net/boost-search-engine-optimisation-seo-using-permalinks/

have set my Permalinks to /%postname%/ because that structure gives the maximum SEO benefit

;)