Comments on: Considering Permalink Structure

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:26:40 +0000

It sounds like, in retrospect, using /%category%/%postname%/ is not a big issue. Thanks for the comment.

By: Sms lån

Sms lån — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:24:01 +0000

I always use /%category%/%postname% and that has never caused me any problems, either with performance or duplicate titles. I mean, how many bloggers has blogs with 1k posts/pages?

By: best seo

best seo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:29:43 +0000

look, I don’t think it makes any difference the url structure. the url is parsed anyway and it doesn’t matter the position of whatever character within the request. if we have a “pretty url”, the relevant parts are rewritten on .htaccess file and sent to script, where regardless of their position are processed quasi simultaneously (filtered and then passed to db queries)
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By: Belajar SEO

Belajar SEO — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:09:01 +0000

I tend to believe that the issue will be fixed somewhere in the future.

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:12:36 +0000

Yes, I agree, in retrospect it is a non-issue, though the reason isn’t as you stated(if you name a post with same name, it will give the permalink a 1 or 2 or 3), but because the database query issue of difficulty with non-numeric posts will probably be fixed at some point in the future. Feel free to name your posts with postname, if you think that is the best way for your use of WordPress.

By: HDTV Cable Box

HDTV Cable Box — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:38:57 +0000

It sounds like this issue boils down to if you think you’ll have so many pages that you’ll bloat the WP database, and that you’ll start to forget what you posted on and start to label your posts with duplicate titles from 2 years back.

I could see this happening if you posted every day for months on end. In this case your visitors might appreciate having your posts referenced with the date in the URL.

Otherwise it does seem like a non-issue. To my mind a clean, concise URL with your keyword in it for that post will always outweigh any possible problems with WP.

By: leora

leora — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:17:57 +0000

Hannah, thanks for the comment. I wouldn’t worry about using the date on your A Mother in Israel blog. You might want to read about duplicate posts when you use post-name alone. If you put your site in Google Webmasters, you can see whether Google is penalizing you for any duplicate posts. But worrying about duplicate content in itself may not be a big deal – spend a little time on this, but not a lot.

By: Hannah Katsman

Hannah Katsman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:07:53 +0000

For CookingManager.Com, I use post-name/cookingmanager.com. For AMotherInIsrael.com, I use post-name/date/amotherinisrael.com. I am not sure I made the right decision about the date, though.