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WP Permalinks Setting For A Big Site

by blueclcl
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I am building a site that will in time be very big with lots of pages and post.
My question is what permalinks will be best to use in the permalinks setting?
Will the following permalinks be suitable the way I have wrote it out:

/%category%-%postname%-%year%-%monthnum%-%day%/

Thanks in advance

blueclcl
#big #permalinks #setting #site
  • Profile picture of the author TroyCo
    just use %postname% WP will automatically use your title and catagory. and its the best option for SEO
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    • Profile picture of the author blueclcl
      Originally Posted by TroyCo View Post

      just use %postname% WP will automatically use your title and catagory. and its the best option for SEO
      I have heard that for big sites having the date at the end can speed up the loading of the page.

      Thanks for your reply.
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      • Profile picture of the author walkities
        Originally Posted by blueclcl View Post

        I have heard that for big sites having the date at the end can speed up the loading of the page.

        Thanks for your reply.
        I'm not an expert by any means but just having the post name is what I've been told as from my understanding it's better for SEO. I had a personal blog which used the date in it's blog posts and since I've changed it to just include the post Ive noticed a spike in traffic.
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      • Profile picture of the author higherluv
        The 5th option down (postname) will still work. Doesn't matter how many pages your blog has, lots of popular blogs with many pages use that setting, and it loads fine for me.
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by blueclcl View Post

        I have heard that for big sites having the date at the end can speed up the loading of the page.
        You've heard it absolutely wrong
        That wouldn't make much sense, would it?

        On the other hand, knowing a little bit about the "logic" how the posts are stored in the database and how they are retrieved when a request (query) is sent to the DB... you would know that it should work the other way around:
        year > month > day > post-name

        Because that's the way how the DB search pattern works: first looking at the the biggest unit (=year); then the next one in size (=month) and, finally, the smallest (=day).
        And if you have more than one post a day > it goes to search the titles.

        So, no, putting the y/m/d at the end of the permalinks doesn't help.

        It used to help to put it in the front... when the WP script had difficulties using permalinks based on just the "postname". That was in the pre-3 versions. They claim, it has been fixed now and it doesn't matter...
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        • Profile picture of the author blueclcl
          Thanyou for your reply.

          So /%catergory%/postname%/ is all that I need to do?

          Regards

          Blueclcl

          Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

          You've heard it absolutely wrong
          That wouldn't make much sense, would it?

          On the other hand, knowing a little bit about the "logic" how the posts are stored in the database and how they are retrieved when a request (query) is sent to the DB... you would know that it should work the other way around:
          year > month > day > post-name

          Because that's the way how the DB search pattern works: first looking at the the biggest unit (=year); then the next one in size (=month) and, finally, the smallest (=day).
          And if you have more than one post a day > it goes to search the titles.

          So, no, putting the y/m/d at the end of the permalinks doesn't help.

          It used to help to put it in the front... when the WP script had difficulties using permalinks based on just the "postname". That was in the pre-3 versions. They claim, it has been fixed now and it doesn't matter...
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          • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
            Originally Posted by blueclcl View Post

            Thanyou for your reply.

            So /%catergory%/postname%/ is all that I need to do?
            Honestly? How would I know what YOU need on your site?

            The permalink structure, just like many other features of a site/blog should be chosen very, very carefully, depending on the site's character, content, planned navigation, target audience etc.
            Notice, I've never mentioned "SEO" and other similar crap... When I plan sites or consult others how to do it - we make sites for humans, not search engines.

            I don't know what you need to do because I don't have enough info.
            I just corrected a misinformation on your previous post.
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            • Profile picture of the author blueclcl
              Thanks, I will do a little research, but it's a magazine style blog so think am going to go with catergory and postname.

              Regards

              Blueclcl


              Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

              Honestly? How would I know what YOU need on your site?

              The permalink structure, just like many other features of a site/blog should be chosen very, very carefully, depending on the site's character, content, planned navigation, target audience etc.
              Notice, I've never mentioned "SEO" and other similar crap... When I plan sites or consult others how to do it - we make sites for humans, not search engines.

              I don't know what you need to do because I don't have enough info.
              I just corrected a misinformation on your previous post.
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      • Profile picture of the author MartinPlatt
        Originally Posted by blueclcl View Post

        I have heard that for big sites having the date at the end can speed up the loading of the page.

        Thanks for your reply.
        How would it do that?

        Just use %postname%.
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  • Profile picture of the author TroyCo
    I have never heard that before, not saying it isn't true, the best ways I know if to speed up your site loading is to have all photos and videos hosted somewhere else like photobucket or flikr and embedding it on your site, WP being a CMS will get jammed up with to much info to sort through
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  • Profile picture of the author TroyCo
    also using the W3 total cache plugin will speed up loading times dramatically for your users

    Hope this helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author WordpressManiac
    I would go with %postname and use yoast SEO plugin to remove "category" before the actual category name.

    Having the date in URL would only be useful for News related sites in my eyes.
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  • Profile picture of the author neilrock
    Personally, I use %postname% and, try not to get too hung up on keyword stuffing... Go with the flow, my blog, doesn't mention much, if anything with the keyword internet marketing in it but, then again, why the hell should it? It's my blog about me and, I'm more worried about establishing myself as an authority not some get rich quick scammer....
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