Wordpress Permalink Structure

[GregDixson]

A quick Wordpress Permalink checkup...

I'm generally a fan of %postname% Permalink structure in Wordpress - although this does create a completely flat architecture, so that ALL Pages AND Posts are found at www.domain.com/_________

I'm sure I've heard, read, or ingested somewhere that it makes more sense to use /blog/%postname% which then makes all Blog Posts reside at www.domain.com/blog/________ with the static Page content still being at www.domain.com/________

Any thoughts to why this would NOT be a good idea?

To me this seems more logical.. and like I say I'm sure I've heard an authority say Google kind of prefers that it can differentiate Blog content from everything else. I've used this successfully on a few sites so far, and all seems to be good. (Moz although not Wordpress, uses this structure for it's blog).

Thanks!

[evolvingSEO]

Greg

I agree with you in 95% of cases, and talked about that in my WordPress Moizinar (slides 13-15). Also see screenshot of what I like for URL structure on your basic WordPress setup (that is a site with a blog in it - typical company/agency site for example).

The only case where I like putting the blog posts right at the root level are if the site is literally only a blog, with like an about page as the only "page" and that's it. In that case I think this works fine.

-Dan

[GregDixson]

Hi Dan, thanks for your answer. Funny, I was actually going to mention you in my question, as I watched your Mozinar before and agreed with your whole permalinks structure info you mentioned during the webinar - albeit you favour the date format for blog posts, as you use for www.evolvingseo.com.

It's good to know that I'm on the right track with my set-up. I feel better for that.

p.s. Your Mozinar has has proven to be an invaluable resource for Wordpress SEO, so thanks very much for that. I particularly liked the grumpy cat and mention him whenever there's a conversation about indexing Tags haha!

Cheers,

Greg

[evolvingSEO]

Greg

Awesome! Glad the mozinar is a valuable resource! Gotta love grumpy cat memes

-Dan