Comments on: How To Optimize WordPress Permalink Structure

By: Silver Baby Cups

Silver Baby Cups — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:48:13 +0000

Great article about permalinks in WP! Buy the way, is it better to make longer permalinks with more keywords, or less keywords in url but a lot shorter.

like url.com/post_name or url.com/category/post_name/etc ?

By: SEO Greece

SEO Greece — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:02:55 +0000

Very useful info thank you for the post.

A plugin that we always recommend for WP is All in one SEO which is a great help when optimizing.

One of its best features (by default) is the option of choosing each page format, each post format and each title format – which is a great feature.

By: I am so cheap :)

I am so cheap :) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:46:59 +0000

If your site is going to have thousands of posts, you may also want to append the post id, or some other unique info (e.g. date) as you may otherwise have issues with ModRewrite slowing down.

Also, having the permalink structure can get you slightly better click through rates as it helps searches identify that they have found the info they are seeking

By: Andy@Website Optimization Software

Andy@Website Optimization Software — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:14:59 +0000

I agree. The url structure is important. I have found that dynamic urls still rank ‘ok’ but not as good as static urls. I think like any other onpage element, having the keyword within the url can help with rankings although it’s not as powerful as having teh keyword within the domain name.

By: Best SEO Tools

Best SEO Tools — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:46:33 +0000

I just want to say, Good article , thanx for all the great posts!

By: Dhany

Dhany — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:41:06 +0000

WordPress warns us (its users) that using /%postname% or /%category%/%postname% structure could slow down the performance.
Is it really significant? And if it’s true, could the caching solution solve this performance problem?

By: Bill | Edward Rayne

Bill | Edward Rayne — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:19:12 +0000

using just /%postname%/ doesn’t pose any risk of URL collision on self hosted WordPress. WordPress will automatically add a -2 (or whatever) at the end of the URL. Not sure about wordpress.com blogs but I would be surprised if it wasn’t the same there as well.

I’m not sure when this feature was implemented but it has been around a while.

I would recommend using /%category%/%postname% since this creates a URL that most closely resembles what users are familiar with. It also allows you to use the category name which should be a relevant keyword.