In my last post, I spoke about the importance of permalink structures, but it seems the one I recommended isn’t without it’s issues.
I told you that I personally use the custom permalink structure /%postname%/ which hasn’t seemed to be an issue until now… but yesterday, I started getting all kinds of errors with my feeds and when I tried to check for feed validation, I get another error saying that my feed isn’t valid.
After some digging around, I found a discussion on the Semiologic Forum and Denis de Bernardy, the developer of Semiologic, states that using the custom permalinks structure /%postname% will make make WordPress think that yoursite.com/feed is the post titled /feed. In other words, it makes WP confuse your posts, pages, and feed urls.
So, having shyed away from using the default date/name based structure, it seems that this is the one Denis and many others recommend because it’s just as good for SEO, and it’s much better for usability.
This is what yours would look like, using the date/name based structure:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/2007/06/12/sample-post/
Source: Blog Marketing, Web 2.0 And Social Marketing By Trish Jones
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When permalink plug-in was not installed on my blog ,the post were not in the right categories and were giving strange links of articles in organic searches.
I am using the %postname% structure and I have not been having any problems with my feeds. I don’t know why this has happened to you. Still, from an SEO perspective it is better to have the %postname% structure.
I’m also using %postname% permalink structure on all of my blogs and i didn’t have any issues to this day. I’m glad you clarified this in case something goes wrong with my blogs.
I would have thought that the robots would be clever enough by now that the structure shouldn’t be an issue .. if so then choosing the structure isn’t a problem ..
oh how i wish Google would be more open with its crawl algorithms
but i dont take any chances onmy site
I’ve never met any trouble with using the %postname% structure so far. I would like to thank you though, for that tidbit of info that can help me sometime in the future.
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