Wordpress Permalinks
October 29, 2010 10:44 AM Subscribe
My friend's wordpress blog is setup so that it is located at domain.com/blog but her permalinks are located at domain.com/category/blog-title/. Is it necessary or does it effect SEO if the permalinks don't use the /blog extension?
Hello Mroz,
I know I'm slightly late responding, but I just wanted to say that you don't have anything to worry about. If it were me, personally, I would update the permalink structure so that all posts looked like domain.com/blog/category/post-title or domain.com/blog/post-title, just to reassure users that they are still reading the blog.
As far as SEO goes, you have nothing to worry about with that permalink structure.
posted by babble at 12:57 PM on November 30, 2010
I know I'm slightly late responding, but I just wanted to say that you don't have anything to worry about. If it were me, personally, I would update the permalink structure so that all posts looked like domain.com/blog/category/post-title or domain.com/blog/post-title, just to reassure users that they are still reading the blog.
As far as SEO goes, you have nothing to worry about with that permalink structure.
posted by babble at 12:57 PM on November 30, 2010
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I would assume that she links to hersite.com/blog/post-name from her home page, out in the wild, etc? Her permalinks should reflect that, too. Otherwise, Google will see two URLs referencing the same page, basically diluting any SEO effort she's putting into it.
The two quick fixes I can think of are trying the WP No Category Base plugin, or by using WP Redirection every time she posts to create a 301 redirect to whichever URL she wants to be canonical.
posted by generichuman at 11:19 AM on October 29, 2010