Do you 'optimise' your website structure?
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As an SEM consultant I get asked a lot of questions about seo and website structure, specifically relating to Wordpress and I'm always testing what works.
Things don't often change to any significant degree but one thing I have noticed recently is that my sites get better traction in Google if I do NOT make the page links 'friendly'. You know using the /%postname%/ for permalink settings.
I used to do this by default. At first because it helped, then after a while just because it's what I used to do, but I've been seeing that Google seems to prefer it when I don't do that now. It seems that the pages load slightly quicker and the search engines prefer the structure that WP uses by default for the links.
So I've now stopped changing the permalinks and am seeing even better results.
Has anyone else noticed this? or tested it?
I know it goes against most seo guru advice, but then again I've always tested this stuff for myself as my own business relies on understanding what works.
Andy
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