Comments on: Optimizing WordPress Permalinks

By: Bahawalpur

Bahawalpur

My current permalink is /year/month/day/post name/

Is this bad for SEO. I have avery good SEO traffice and this permalink is ther from last 1 and half year.

By: Barry

Barry

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for the nice post and it is always pleasure to read your blog. I did not know that Google News need specific permalinks structure. Thanks for sharing this information.

By: FraNcisB

FraNcisB

Thanks for the information. I have just re-installed my wordpress. And changed immediately my Permalinks Settings. I believe its the best practice to do after the installation.

BTW, I also prefer %category%/%postname%.thanks

By: mr.richmind

mr.richmind

Can you help the way to set-up permalinks without : index.php?

http://sample.org/index.php/2010/05/welcome-welcome-welcome/

By: Kamarul

Kamarul

My new blog just set up the new permalinks. Just nice permalinks. Thank you.

By: David

David

Nice tips, I use category and post name for my new blog and find it easily to remember and good for SEO too

By: NpXp

NpXp

I always make sure that I setup permalink as soon as I install WordPress.

Each time I would use something different according to the needs from that particular blog.

By: Marc

Marc

Hi, does anyone know if there's the possibility to use 2 different structures?
One would be like http://www.mysite.com/article1.html and the other like http://www.mysite.com/news/article2.html

Since I've a website which is already running with the first structure but now I'd like it to publish only some articles in a different way (for example using the category "news")

Do you think it could be possible?

Thanks :)

By: dani

dani

But sometimes we need to know the time information from urls in SERPs. Especially information talks about time-related announcements, e.g: job vacancies, conferences, seminars, etc.

By: Nick Breen

Nick Breen

Thanks I knew about permalinks and how to use them, I am really excited about the google news perma links though.

this is awesome, and I wondered how this worked. This is really gonna increase exposure thanks again.

By: Rock Your Web

Rock Your Web

I would like to run my site on http://www.thailand-hotdeals.com with wordpress.
I have another software on folder. Can I ignore .htaccess (mod-rewrite) on sub folder?
Thanks for advance.

By: Alan

Alan

Hi Vladimir,

I will unfortunately need to change my permalink structure as it begins with a date. The reason for this was that the blogs started on Blogger, which use dates in the urls so, I needed to maintain the same when moving to WordPress so to avoid 404's.

Well, I have yet to remove the dates from the permalinks & now that it's been about 9 months since moving from Blogger, we have a lot more urls to change. I was going to to make the change because I though WP automatically redirects changed permalinks/urls so I figured I would be okay. But I noticed that you did not mention that above.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

Thanks! BTW, I just emailed you about some private work...this url change being some of the work ;-)

Alan

By: Faehren

Faehren

Hi. Very good article, but I need a help.

I use wordpress on a linux server.

I set permalinks but I have some problems with a couple of things.

How to rewrite & permalink like "domain.com/fr/aticle-title" this 2 address
domain.com/?p=228&lang=fr
domain.com/index.php?p=228&lang=fr

The second problem is this:
"domain.com/article-title/?lang=fr" must be "domain.com/fr/article-title/"

The third is to know how to modify variable sequency in permalink
"domain.com/index.php?p=228&lang=fr&tag=ferry" must be "domain.com/fr/ferry/article-title/"

I need to know how to modify htaccess file or if there is a wordpress plugin and how to set it.

tks for the help and sorry for the bad english!!!

Marco

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

The advice here is aimed at SEO. However regarding WP performance we run the same setup on GeekWithLaptop.com a WordPress site with tens of thousands of posts and huge traffic without any problems even when multiple digg front pages are hit in the same day.

By: Garrison

Garrison

I think this is really bad advice because what happens when:

a) Your site gains high traffic, and;
b) Has hundreds of posts

Everyone has the ambition to create popular websites so your advice is not scaleable.

There seems to be an ironic conflict here e.g. on the one hand you're advocating a structure of %category%/%postname% which will help SEO and help yield high traffic; yet that high traffic (combined with hundreds of posts) could lead to chronic performance issues because the URL structure requires many queries, many more than is necessary (or recommended)