Permalink Structure

**Nick R** · 05-10-2009, 06:44 AM

Which structure do you think is best for SEO:

site.com/2009/05/10/sampleposttitle/

or

site.com/category/id-sampleposttitle/

**Big Dan** · 05-12-2009, 11:02 AM

We're talking Wordpress here right?

I personally use

Code:

%category%/%postname%.html

I don't know what's better SEO wise, but I always thought that date in the URL isn't such a great idea since SE visitors may think the information is out of date just by looking at the URL.

**Cerberus** · 05-12-2009, 11:11 AM

Keeping your netowrk info safe | Info Alley

HTML Code:

http://www.infoalley.info/2009/05/keeping-your-network-info-safe-with-backups/

This is how I have them on the blog.

**glennybee** · 05-12-2009, 12:44 PM

I think this is perfect for SEO.

Code:

/%postname%/

I have /category blocked via robots.txt file along with many other folders.

**Nick R** · 05-12-2009, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennybee

I think this is perfect for SEO.

Code:

/%postname%/

I have /category blocked via robots.txt file along with many other folders.

So you simply don't use the category filter other than for usability (for human visitors)?

**glennybee** · 05-12-2009, 04:08 PM

That's correct Nick.

This is my robots.txt file...

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

# Google Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Google AdSense
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Allow: /*

**Nick R** · 05-12-2009, 06:15 PM

Has this proven to be beneficial in terms of SEO? Or is it just a preference of yours?

**glennybee** · 05-12-2009, 07:47 PM

I found it on a SEO blog and thought I'd give it a go. I've been using it on one of my new blogs, online for 9 days, and I am pos.4 in Google for one of my keyword phrases. So it seems to be doing ok. Obviously 9 days does not a glowing report make, but it's looking good.

Obviously there are other aspects contributing to the SERPs and not just this robots.txt but hey...

themeswarehouse · 02-23-2010, 05:20 AM

I use this permalinks on lots of my blog.

Quote:

%postname%.htm