Permalink Confusion

  • I’m confused about permalinks.

    The SEO experts suggest using /%postname%/ or /%category%/%postname%/.

    The WordPress Codex says, “Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.” and “Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.

    I’m currently using /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ but I was considering changing to /%postname%/

    What do you folks suggest?

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  • SEO for SEO ??
    WP for WP ??

    Personally I would stick with the wordpress Codex. As I understand it slow loading pages can also affect SEO rankings.

    In my personal opinion there is far too much emphasis put on SEO ‘tricks’, at the end of the day good relevant well written pages will always rank. If you keep an eye of basics like the words in your titles, relating to the relavant use of the same words on your article, use of excerpts etc. This is my own opinion though!

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