Comments on: Easy WordPress SEO: Change URLs to pretty permalinks

By: Nathan Bowers

Nathan Bowers — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:12:56 +0000

Silly me, ending posts in .html is a standard WordPress option in the Permalinks admin panel. You could use the Permalink Redirect plugin I mentioned if you want to get rid of the .html without breaking incoming links. For the record it's good to not show file extensions in URLs (the classic case is if you change the backend from say .jsp to .aspx, old links break) but again, not a big deal. Worry more about writing awesome stuff than file extensions.

By: Nathan Bowers

Nathan Bowers — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:03:50 +0000

Dates are OK if your categories aren’t very keyword-ey. Just having the post title is plenty. If you ever decide to make a change you can do so without breaking anything.

I notice you have .html at the end of your URLs. Are you using the SuperCache plugin? I took the .html off one of your posts and it redirected fine, but just make sure that if you disable that plugin the redirection still happens. In any case, not a big deal, you can always do custom redirects with .htaccess.

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:39:27 +0000

Okay, I’ll bite.

A while back, I got disgusted by all my categories (something like 50+…ugh…) and I converted them all to tags and replaced them with five. But the five have longish & quirky names, like “the useful ones” and “the personal ones.”

In this case, do you really think it’s better to swap out the dates for the “pretty” ones?