Pretty URLs

[espmartin]

We've known now for a couple of years that descriptive URLs
are a much greater asset than numeric URLs, or dynamic URLs.


For example, take a look at a URL such as:

/company/starbucks/

YOu see how easy its read and can be remembered? Also notice
the keyword placement in the URL.

Now, an un-optimized URL such as:

/4632/9393os/

And we know that dynamic ones are even worse as far as human
(and SEO) reading is concerned.

What I do (with my WordPress sites) is use two variables for my URLs:

%category%

%postname%

Which will give you:

YourSite.com/YourCategory/YourPostname/

Pretty cool! You can configure your URLs via the admin's
Permalink options.

 

[SkinnerW]

I do the same with Wordpress. The only problem - this url will look as intended only if you click on article title from the index page. If you choose the same post from archives or categories - wordpress will insert extra symbols into url...

 

[loredan]

I do the same with Wordpress. The only problem - this url will look as intended only if you click on article title from the index page. If you choose the same post from archives or categories - wordpress will insert extra symbols into url...

I usually go for yoururl.com/yourpostname and never had any problems with the archived posts

 

[espmartin]

I do the same with Wordpress. The only problem - this url will look as intended only if you click on article title from the index page. If you choose the same post from archives or categories - wordpress will insert extra symbols into url...

Actually, the URL will display "/category/postname/" with category selection,
or "/tag/postname/" with tags selection - or - "/archived/" - or - "/2007/" - etc...

And with those, you simply (the "All In One" SEO plugin makes this a dream!!!)
no-index them, so there's no dup. content issues.