What Is The Best Permalink Structure?
One of the most important things that a blogger using Wordpress as their blogging platform needs to do when setting up the mechanics of their blog is to decide on their permalink structure. The permalink structure of a blog dictates what the links for individual posts look like. With the default structure that comes with Wordpress, the link for an individual post may not be exasctly what the blog author desires. Using the default permalink structure, the title of the blog post will not appear in the link for the blog post and this is not good in terms of getting individual posts ranked in search engines.
What other options are there though when it comes to varying the permalink structure of a blog?
The default setting will make the URLs of your post look like this: yourdomainname.com/?p=123
Through the admin panel, the following optional configurations are available:
Day and name, so your post’s URL will look like: yourdomainname.com/2008/07/11/post-name/
Month and name, so your post’s URL will look like: yourdomainname.com/2008/07/post-name/
Numeric, so your post’s URL will look like: yourdomainname.com/archives/123
But, Wordpress also allows you to insert a custom structure. Using the custom feature, you can assign a different set up to the URL’s of your blog posts. The set up that we use here at ItsABlogThing.com is: yourdomainname.com/category-name/post-name
In doing this, the URL for the individual post will end up having the domain name, the category that describes what the post is about, and the post name in it. This is but one way to go about having custom URLs through Wordpress, many also prefer to have the URL be just the domain name followed by the post name which is also a good way to go. The best permalink structures to use allow the URL to describe exactly what the page or post is about. The only way to do this is to alter the permalink structure that comes as the default setting with Wordpress.
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