Comments on: WordPress SEO Friendly Permalinks

By: Software Store

Software Store — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:04:46 +0000

I want to try changing the permalink on my website. But I am afraid of losing my backlinks that have previously been put on some websites. Any suggestions for this?

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:33:56 +0000

Thank you for the useful tips. I have one question though:

I created my wp site about a month ago and only have about 5 posts on there. You said not to change the category base on a site that was already created. But I’m not worried about my 5 posts not getting indexed by google so is it OK if I change my category base? I want to change it to freelance-writer.
Thanks

By: Bjoern

Bjoern — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:09:23 +0000

Thanks for your guide! I had the .htaccess in the wrong directory, so I couldn’t access my articles via the permalink anymore.

By: Casinos im Web

Casinos im Web — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:07:33 +0000

Great stuff you got here SEO mofo! I just bumbed into your site today somehow and I thank my stars!Can you help me with one basic info but a vital info for me. I got some 300 articles in my site with the common setting – month and name. You also said redirecting the entire links through 301 is not advisable. So how do i go ahead?

By: WordPress SEO Theme Author

WordPress SEO Theme Author — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:31:37 +0000

The page you are on now is a WordPress blog Page not a WordPress blog Post. There are two types of webpages and WordPress named them so well a page called a Post and a page called a Page (calling them Static Pages would have been more helpful)!

Blog Posts are the type that get put in the monthly and category archives and archived on the home page and are organised by date.

Blog Pages are not part of the archived pages, they are basically static pages like the default About page and are only linked from the menu (under Pages) and in some themes an extra menu usually below the header. You can ad extra organisation by giving a blog Page parent or child pages.

We have no control over the permalink structure of blog Pages, they are always:

/has-no-parent-page
/has-parent-page/child-page

Sort of format.

The blog Page you are on now is a child of WordPress SEO Tutorial Page that is linked on the top menu, which is why it looks like it’s in a category called /seo-tutorial-for-wordpress/ (that’s the URL of the SEO Tutorial parent page, there is no SEO Tutorial category).

So on this site I’ve used %postname%.html format for blog Posts. There’s no real difference between %postname% and %postname%.html really.

Hope that makes sense.

David Law

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:23:46 +0000

I noticed in this post that you mentioned you use /%postname%/.html for you page titles, yet when I look at this page as an example, you have used /%category%/%postname%/ with no .html plus the inclusion of the category in the url.

May I ask why the contradiction? I’m just now learning to use wordpress (I’ve been using html and css sites) and I would like to get my first WP site set up the best way for seo purposes now, before I get too far..