I would say this looks right. Although I do not think Wordpress will allow you to have duplicates, it will number them for you if they have the same name. Adding the ID only makes it easier to differentiate between them.

If it's a small Wordpress site:

domain.com/brown-dog/

If it's a giant Wordpress site that is heavily dependent upon articles and categories actually become important:

domain.com/training-dogs/brown-dog/

I used to use the category/postname structure until I noticed this

So I would suggest starting with the month, year or combination. Might not make a difference on a very small site though.

Here's the url to Wordpress where the above paragraph came from http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

I wasn't talking about ranking, I was referring to your websites speed/performance.

For ranking, I would prefer using category/postname and I was a little worried but changing the structure to something easier on the server but it hasn't affected my rankings at all.

For smaller amounts of traffic, it might not matter much.

I agree for a regular wordpress site


But as that site above says http://ottopress.com/2010/category-i...dered-harmful/ Speed is an issue

Google says this now about speed

And the guy at url says

And then on top of that you haev on Large based wordpress sites that also have the potential to have the SAME urls

i.e one person submits question and another person submits same question

you now have

domain.com/category/why-are-dogs-hairy.html

domain.com/category/why-are-dogs-hairy.html

now wordpress will add a number in like


domain.com/category/why-are-dogs-hairy.html

domain.com/category/why-are-dogs-hairy-2.html

But still thats going to get bad when you have hundreds similar questions

Lets take warrior forum... the links are like

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ning-good.html

There is a number in it to identify and to keep the urls unique in the chance someone posts the same question in the same category

This is what i am referring to.

Also if you have 3 deep categories and long post titles you are going to end up with mammoth url lengths

I also wonder now with Google being big on

1. Speed
2. Geographics
3. Time/Relevancy

If having the date in the url will actually help with seo

Here's a couple of mine from different sites (copied exactly)

/%monthnum%/%postname%

/%year%/%monthnum%/%category%/%postname%/

/%day%%monthnum%%year%/%hour%%minute%/%category%/%postname%/

/%category%/%postname%/

/%year%/%category%/%postname%.html

They all rank well and I can see no difference in the serps between the structures.

So you dont think

/%post_id%/%postname%

is a good idea?

If our categories is our keywords, so /%category%/%postname%/ is the good choice.
But I prefer use only /%postname%.html and write my targeted keyword at my post title.

Those are all completely equal in the eyes of a search engine. URLS are a pointer (Locator) to a resource, nothing more. They can have value in the eyes of the web viewer.

Something with the words they are searching for looks promising and gets a click, or maybe they've been burned to many times by unscrupulous marketers and pay not attention to the url in the serps.

In this day and age I'd say make them as short as possible so they stay twitter-iffic. WP out of the box with NO permalink changes is just fine. As is %postid% or %postid%.html. Any of those are acceptably short. People spend too much time thinking about this, over-thinking it really. Just pick one and stick with it.

Keyword stuffed urls are yesterday.

Anything starting with /%post_id% is the best for performance.

Every blog I have I use %postname%
They all eventually end up 1 on google.
Thou my sites never have hundreds of posts so the category option never really enters into it.

Based on my experience
domain.com/brown-dog/
is the best, then comes
domain.com/brown-dog.html