Though I don’t like writing articles on SEO much because SEO algorithm keep changing with time and there is no shortcut to get into the front page of result without quality content but though it is quite important to tweak your wordpress blog for better SEO so that when we hit publish chances of getting on Front page of the result will be more.
Now many blogger use categories like blog, blogging which does not make much sense when you think from search point of view. A better option will be using blogging tips, blogger hacks.
Similar in the case of category named as “addon“ which does not make any sense to search result but using a category like mozilla addon or FireFox addon does make sense.
Every word you select for your blog either tag or category make sure it makes sense otherwise using any useless category name or tag name always set you apart from better search engine result.
Try to keep the category name as what you have in your Meta tag.
In case if you are planning to change your existing categories name to something sensible now make sure your permalink will not be affected because of that.
If you use permalinks like %category%/%posts% I will not advice you to change your category or use permalinks migration plugin for your blog if your change your category.
Though people and SEO expert suggest that using a %category%/%posts% or %date%/%posts% is Google friendly permalinks structure but I rather stick with %post%.html structure for simple reason my post will never get old and I can reuse them and if I make any changes anywhere it will not break my sitemap.
Tip: Try to change your categories name to something appropriate
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Totally Agree with you man. Especially the last paragraph. I have also noticed this on gurus blog that they usually don’t mention date in their posts as well as you usually dont know when they posted the stuff…
Great tip, completely agree with you!
i have another reason why you should use %post%.html as permalink structure than %category%/%post%.html one
because it gives u the ability to publish the same post under two or more categories and no duplication posts occurs
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harsh witch permalinks i have to use? which is better for search result
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Mohit I prefer keeping %post%.html permalink.. i find it the best..
though you can remove the .html part….
Nice! Really very informative
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“Commenting”
Thx
That means if someone is having %postname.html permalink structure then he can edit his older posts without time and date issue??
Shahab I’m failed to understand your question… Could you be more specific…??
actually i mean to say that since we don’t have date in %postname%.html permalink structure therefore editing old posts with these permalink structure should not change or alter the Post permalink of edited post?
I hope i am able to make you understand this time.
Thats true Shahab. Since you don’t have %date% in your permalink, you can recycle your post. I do it at times when some good post get unnoticed.. This will make sure..to get traffic for those posts which got unnoticed….
Your artile is very instructive. Now I have got a better idea about good permalink structure. As much as possible we should try make the permalink as independent as possible and at the same time it should be delivering the right content information.
Great tips completely agree with you..
Can we add the same tag for the same categories. Let say Tag “Google” for Category ‘Google”
Thanks for bringing this simple fix to the forefront of my attention.