Comments on: Second Guessing My Permalink Structure http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/ ham radio, computing, money, and other ramblings Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:25:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Dennis Edell http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14202 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:26:52 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14202 Boo. ;) Boo. ;)

]]> by: Nick http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14196 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:46:13 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14196 Steve, thanks for stopping by. After reading the feedback I have gotten on this post, I think I will stay with the structure that I already have. In the future, I will probably also continue to use this structure on other sites I set up. I agree that all-in-all it's probably not that big of a deal and there are other things that are more important, however, when setting up a new site there's no reason not to go for the best possible option :) Yeah, Dennis has been on quite a few sites lately, he's been a great contributor here. Steve, thanks for stopping by. After reading the feedback I have gotten on this post, I think I will stay with the structure that I already have. In the future, I will probably also continue to use this structure on other sites I set up. I agree that all-in-all it’s probably not that big of a deal and there are other things that are more important, however, when setting up a new site there’s no reason not to go for the best possible option :)

Yeah, Dennis has been on quite a few sites lately, he’s been a great contributor here.

]]> by: Nick http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14195 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:38:22 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14195 Thanks for answering that question about duplicate post titles, that I think was the thing that was bothering me the most. Thanks for answering that question about duplicate post titles, that I think was the thing that was bothering me the most.

]]> by: Steve | Trade Show Guru http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14188 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:56:58 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14188 hey Nick, I followed you over here from your comment on the Canadian Club post (because of your post title - you must know what you're doing). You'd better not be winning my schwag! :) I think you have the best structure. I picked the date then name structure, and wish I'd gone with just the name structure. That said, I don't think it matters much at all. The only structure I'd bother changing from is the post number structure. Otherwise, there are much more important things to worry about. ~ Steve, aka the trade show guru PS. Hey, I see Dennis Edell above. Man, that guy is everywhere! ;) hey Nick,
I followed you over here from your comment on the Canadian Club post (because of your post title - you must know what you’re doing). You’d better not be winning my schwag! :)
I think you have the best structure. I picked the date then name structure, and wish I’d gone with just the name structure. That said, I don’t think it matters much at all. The only structure I’d bother changing from is the post number structure. Otherwise, there are much more important things to worry about.
~ Steve, aka the trade show guru
PS. Hey, I see Dennis Edell above. Man, that guy is everywhere! ;)

]]> by: Tiger http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14095 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:37:01 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14095 That is a really good point. I have one site that the url, including the www, is 29 letters long. I am always having to shorten the urls and really would have been better off just using numbers. Honestly, now that I am thinking about it, I will probably go back and use numbers while it is still kind of manageable. I could go with /category/postnumber/ and still maintain a little seo. It is amazing what thinking 'out loud' can do for you... That is a really good point. I have one site that the url, including the www, is 29 letters long. I am always having to shorten the urls and really would have been better off just using numbers.

Honestly, now that I am thinking about it, I will probably go back and use numbers while it is still kind of manageable. I could go with /category/postnumber/ and still maintain a little seo.

It is amazing what thinking ‘out loud’ can do for you…

]]> by: Tiger http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14094 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:29:20 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14094 I think from an seo standpoint, the way mentioned by Martin above is a good way to do it. I hadn't ever thought of doing it this way until a friend showed me how he did his blogs using /category/postname/ I have several sites where I went with the /archives/postname/ structure, but I probably won't do that in the future. However, the one advantage to the /archive/ structure is that if you turn your site into something other than a blog later, you can keep the articles naturally grouped together in one place. I think from an seo standpoint, the way mentioned by Martin above is a good way to do it. I hadn’t ever thought of doing it this way until a friend showed me how he did his blogs using /category/postname/

I have several sites where I went with the
/archives/postname/ structure, but I probably won’t do that in the future. However, the one advantage to the /archive/ structure is that if you turn your site into something other than a blog later, you can keep the articles naturally grouped together in one place.

]]> by: Georgy http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14045 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:03:46 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-14045 I also use the /%postname%/ method..bec you know too long urls are also not nice...so if u got a category called 'holy places' and a post named 'Santhome Basilica Cathedral - Chennai, India ', then ur url will be "www.yoursitename.com/holy-places/santhome basilica-cathedral-chennai-india" which I think is pretty long..so acc to my opinion, the /%postname%/ method will do as u get a short n relevent url also. I also use the /%postname%/ method..bec you know too long urls are also not nice…so if u got a category called ‘holy places’ and a post named ‘Santhome Basilica Cathedral - Chennai, India ‘, then ur url will be
“www.yoursitename.com/holy-places/santhome basilica-cathedral-chennai-india”

which I think is pretty long..so acc to my opinion, the /%postname%/ method will do as u get a short n relevent url also.

]]> by: Martin http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-13831 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:05:26 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-13831 @Jason: if the redirects are done correctly, there will be no impact to your Google PR. Similarly, any search engine hits to the old URLs will be transparently redirected to the new URLs, so it won't affect search engines or any other pages that link to specific posts on your blog. @Jason: if the redirects are done correctly, there will be no impact to your Google PR. Similarly, any search engine hits to the old URLs will be transparently redirected to the new URLs, so it won’t affect search engines or any other pages that link to specific posts on your blog.

]]> by: ジェイソン (Jason) http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-13828 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:58:41 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-13828 So far everyone is right about the headaches that you'll face if you change your permalink structure. Sure, Google and the other search engines will eventually catch up, and you can use plugins like "Redirection" to automatically direct people and bots to the new location, but you'll take a hit on Google Juice (PR) and might even get slapped by the smaller search engines. Aside from that, there shouldn't be too many problems :P Regarding the "right kind" of permalink structure, there are quite a few articles out there by pro bloggers who swear by the /category/post-name for SEO purposes, but it doesn't really appeal to me visually ... so whatever floats your boat on this one. If you're using All-In-One SEO or other tools like that, you might not even need to worry too much about the address. Just look at how many articles from forums appear in a Google results page and you'll see what I mean. As for your question about having two posts with the same name, WordPress can handle this already. The second post gets a "-2" slapped on the end of the link, and the third gets a "-3". There is no possible way (that I've seen) to have two posts with the exact same address, even if they have the same title :) Let me know if you have any questions about this stuff. While I'm not quite an uber pro, I've done enough work with open source packages and SEO to answer most of the novice and intermediate-level questions. So far everyone is right about the headaches that you’ll face if you change your permalink structure. Sure, Google and the other search engines will eventually catch up, and you can use plugins like “Redirection” to automatically direct people and bots to the new location, but you’ll take a hit on Google Juice (PR) and might even get slapped by the smaller search engines.

Aside from that, there shouldn’t be too many problems :P

Regarding the “right kind” of permalink structure, there are quite a few articles out there by pro bloggers who swear by the /category/post-name for SEO purposes, but it doesn’t really appeal to me visually … so whatever floats your boat on this one. If you’re using All-In-One SEO or other tools like that, you might not even need to worry too much about the address. Just look at how many articles from forums appear in a Google results page and you’ll see what I mean.

As for your question about having two posts with the same name, WordPress can handle this already. The second post gets a “-2″ slapped on the end of the link, and the third gets a “-3″. There is no possible way (that I’ve seen) to have two posts with the exact same address, even if they have the same title :)

Let me know if you have any questions about this stuff. While I’m not quite an uber pro, I’ve done enough work with open source packages and SEO to answer most of the novice and intermediate-level questions.

]]> by: Dennis Edell http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-13795 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:11:06 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/second-guessing-my-permalink-structure/#comment-13795 eh I'm finicky, always thinking bigger and better on the fly. :) eh I’m finicky, always thinking bigger and better on the fly. :)

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