Comments on: Optimize your categories – Wordpress SEO Tip

By: Harley Leather Jackets

Harley Leather Jackets — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:43:10 +0000

Great share! Your post is a good check list what to think of when changing categories. I always use the W3 online link checker afterwards to make sure I didn’t forget anything.

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By: Learn Master Guitar

Learn Master Guitar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:45:05 +0000

No idea what I did wrong but after changing my permalinks my blog is full of links that include the word ‘category’, e.g. http://www.learn2playguitarfast.com/category/free-stuff/free-guitar-software/.

That’s so stupid. But I don’t dare to change it as I have so many posts and if it messes everything up I’m screwed ).

Or – do you think it’s ok to change my permalinks again?

Thanks for your very helpful information on your blog, and your advice!

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By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:34:32 +0000

Yes Richard, it’s perfectly fine to have the /%postname%/ format, it might make a better option to add the category also, provided you have them optimized. Reg. categories, I don’t think it might be a good idea to leave a default category, but yes if it’s your primary keyword or a variation of it, it makes sense to have it appear in more than one place.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:38:53 +0000

Matt, good suggestions. I have heard that for posts it can be good to just go /%postname%/. What do you think of that solution?

Also, for category pages, do you think leaving the default of category in there is a good idea or not?

Thanks,
Richard

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:01:20 +0000

Good question Brit.

In fact, I don’t use categories (if you had noted) too much, as I found them difficult to handle. This is a lame answer but honestly, adding the categories would’ve given me less benefit compared to the time I’d spend on them. Google has a liking for dates as well, so I prefer the date format and it’s easy to track the articles that way since the number of posts are more on the blog.

And as you rightly guessed, I’d not recommend changing the URL if you have a majority of them indexed already on Google and more importantly linked back from other sites. So two reasons there for not using the category specific URL. (BTW..Tags take care of the categories right now)

By: brit

brit — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:58:05 +0000

I have already implemented most of these tips on my blog. I still use a postname only structure permalink since it is too late to change that.I do believe that adding category to permalinks is an extra benefit.
I am wondering however, the fact that you use date/postname in your permalink is because you too found it was too late to change? If yes, shouldn’t this be something you’d do at the moment you started this blog since you have SEO knowledge?

Brit