Best Permalink Structure for Long Titles

  • Hi,

    I’m creating a Q&A site and I’m wondering what the best permalink structure would be. I was thinking /%post_id%/%postname%/, but with some questions being really long, the url will be really long as well.

    So, is it a good idea to have the url as just /question/%post_id%/?

    Thanks!

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  • Have you considered just modifying the url each time?

    After writing the title of your post, you do not need to accept the default slug developed from your title, you can edit it. (If yu don’t see that option, turn it on in screen options)

    I prefer to use postname as the tail end of my URL for seo, and just for human readability, but I do editr my longer ones

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    As of WordPress 3.3 it’s a lot easier to just use %postname% as the rules have been tweaked.

    I personally made a custom post-type for ‘Questions’ and my URLs are all /question/postname ??

    Thread Starter Tristan

    (@mrt209)

    Thanks for the replies ??

    I can’t really modified the urls each time since users will be posting the quetsions and Ipstenu doesn’t your urls get way too long? From what I’ve read that’s bad for SEO.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I manually edit them pretty much all the time.

    SEO doesn’t care about that as much as HEO does (human experience optimization).

    I used to edit them manually as well it’s easier for me but i stopped being a mod a while ago i still run a few sites but mostly just build small ones now like [link removed], however when i did run them i always found editing them gave me more flexibility.

    I would keep it as 3 distinct pieces of data:
    1. q&a title
    2. q&a question
    3. q&a answer

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