Opinions for the Long URL strings in WordPress Blogs.

[theideapeople]

We use Wordpress for our agency Blogs.  The URL's are very long and the Moz does not like the long URL's.

Should we use the stubby, short Wordpress URL's for each blog post?  Is there a "Best Practice" for how one should use the Wordpress URL string?

[evolvingSEO]

Hi

I most definitely would use them.  You may want to remove "the" or other extraneous words.

Also, keep whatever is before it in the url short, and preferably only one level deep.  So if you're viewing an individual blog post:  www.domain.com/blog/this-is-the-url-of-the-blog-post

If they are just so ridiculously long (like over 15 words) maybe its a sign your titles themselves are too long.

-Dan