Best permalink structure
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I tried various permutations and combinations with permalink structures and finally short-listed the top three best permalink structures (as per my analytical reasoning).
What are permalinks?
The link (url) for each blog post you write. Ex:- In a html web site, the url of a contact page, could be www.yourdomain.com/contact.htm. In a wordpress blog, a url will be created for each blog post automatically (called as a permalink). By dafault the structure looks like “www.yourdomain.com/?p=N”. If you are trying hard to comprehend that url, guess how the googlebot would like it.
So among the first few things you need to do when you have installed wordpress is to change the permalink structure.
Top 3 permalink structures
/%category%/%postname%/: As is evident, this will show the category of the post and the name of the post from your post slug. (If you are tagging a post in more than one category avoid category or googlebot will be confused as to which category the post belongs.
/%catagory%/%postid%/%postname%/: If you are proud of your post count, and like to showoff, then add %postid%. You can please only humans with this tag.
/%postname%/: This is the best structure, if you are a microniche blogger and appropriate title writer. This will keep your url short and coherent.
Popular adversary permalink structure tags are /%year%/, /%month%/, /%day%/. Googlebot hates dates in the urls.
As we all are well aware of, the spider we are talking about here is the busiest and most sensitive spider in the whole world. It can sniff ‘gobbledegook’ a mile away.
Next post will be “how to change permalink structures”
(You have every right to chalk down your best permalink structure list in the comments. I’m flexible to those who have higher reasoning and analytical abilities than me).