Need advice on Wordpress website's permalinks

beachguru · 03-22-2010, 12:13 PM

Hi, I have a really quick question...........I have a wordpress adsense website that only contains pages and links to articles (mine and others). I do not have a blogroll, thus I don't have categories. So my question is: For SEO, how should my permalinks look?? Be as specific as you can....thanks so much in advance.

Western Grizzlin' · 03-22-2010, 12:28 PM

I use %second%/%postname%. A lot of folks will say just do %postname%, but here's what it says about that on the Wordpress site...

Quote:

Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.

Hope this helps.

Marko Vel · 03-22-2010, 12:33 PM

I use /%category%/%postname%

beachguru · 03-22-2010, 12:39 PM

Marko,
But since I don't have any categories, would that make sense for me to use "/%category%/%postname%"????

Peter Gregory · 03-22-2010, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by beachguru

Marko,
But since I don't have any categories, would that make sense for me to use "/%category%/%postname%"????

Don't you have to have at least one category to even make a post or are you putting it in uncategorized?

beachguru · 03-22-2010, 12:44 PM

I took all the posts out since I didn't want the maintenance....but I'm now thinking that I made a mistake??? Would it help with traffic if I did have posts???

entrepenerd · 03-22-2010, 12:48 PM

Sounds like you're just using pages for your content. If so, then the permalink setup doesn't have much to do with anything. You're pages will have slugs, and that's all you'll need.

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beachguru Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Need advice on Wordpress website's permalinks Hi, I have a really quick question...........I have a wordpress adsense website that only contains pages and links to articles (mine and others). I do not have a blogroll, thus I don't have categories. So my question is: For SEO, how should my permalinks look?? Be as specific as you can....thanks so much in advance.

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Marko Vel PutYourSoulInWhatYouDo War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: In Europe Posts: 845 Thanks: 63 Thanked 107 Times in 64 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Need advice on Wordpress website's permalinks I use /%category%/%postname%
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beachguru Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Need advice on Wordpress website's permalinks Marko, But since I don't have any categories, would that make sense for me to use "/%category%/%postname%"????

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beachguru Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Need advice on Wordpress website's permalinks I took all the posts out since I didn't want the maintenance....but I'm now thinking that I made a mistake??? Would it help with traffic if I did have posts???

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entrepenerd Entrepenerd.com War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Logansport, IN, USA. Posts: 670 Thanks: 129 Thanked 78 Times in 33 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Need advice on Wordpress website's permalinks Sounds like you're just using pages for your content. If so, then the permalink setup doesn't have much to do with anything. You're pages will have slugs, and that's all you'll need.
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