dibul

Thanks for the help. Yes to have too many pages in the SERP must be a luxury problem 🙂

I decided to put back the YEAR part in the permalink structure. I think its about short URLs because if too long then they won’t be read. ANyway I don’t use www so it probably balances with the extra four digits of the year. I also see in the SERP that the year is replaced with /../ so probably there is an algorithm prioritizing it down.

I cancelled the category from the URL as well. Then I don’t have to worry about which category is selected automatically.

Perhaps the distinction of categories and thus recognition of KW in the URL is already performed prior to seeing the visible url so to have it shown won’t matter what regards SE’s. I am not sure about that.

Well, perhaps it gives more flexibility for the single posts to focus on different keywords. If the category is there, the search engines might look for consistency between the URL category KW’s and the emphasized KW’s in the post. If the KW’s of the category are missing then there is some discrepancy I guess, so it would be better in that case to just have the domain name (which perhaps is more generic and cover the theme) mixed with the kw’s in the title. But again who knows. We just have to try I guess.

WOuld you suggest me to put in the /%year%/ and delete the /%category%/ part of the permalink structure then?

Its a hard topic because I see the problem with overload of database queries but on the other hand people might filter of ones articles for date reasons though they might be timeless/classical.

I had %year% before but thought the category would do good in terms of SEO but then why not just put a keyword in the posttitle which is in the URL.
Should category go out or is %year%/%category%/%post_title%/ ok?

Ok, but I can’t seem to dfind that ID number anywhere

txs

I forgot to continue the joke with : “Microsoft MS ought to be called SM” since its often rather a sadomasochistic (SM) kind of experience, especially when changing versions.

Scouts honour, I like WOrdpress and plugins in general. It rocks and I would never change from that to some other commercial site builder. Hope some are relieved now.

Now the problem:

You are right: It’s dissapeared from the blog page which I set to some other page than the home page since on my home page I preferred to have a static one. SO in Settings/General/reading I set this so I get the posts show up on another page.

It comes up without text but all the rest if I click the “blog” in the navigation or select is as one of the recent posts in the widget.

No matter how you access the page it comes without the text but only without the text itself. On the main post page all the other posts are as usual. As I said I tried to copy the text to a new post I created and it came out empty. I wonder if the text can cause itself to dissapear. Seems strange.

Thank you both 🙂

Great site you have!

In my case though, I notice that there are more links to the http://www.domain.com version, so I think it would be not a good idea to tell Google that I only want the bare canonical url version ranked.

I am still unsure what will be the consequense of telling Google that one of the versions is it. I know Google uses smart algorithms so they usually know what to rank but…

I read someones story about having one of the versions ranked at the cost of the other since Google makes it’s choice. That resulted in his ranking to dissapear. It also was due to relative linking which evidently confused the search engines to believe that the bare version was the true one.

WHat do you think? What is your argument for using the bare version? WHat are the benefits of that. And will links to the www version still count in favor of the ranking, due to the 301 redirect?

SOrry about the lots of questions.