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Tagged: best practice, blog, posts, URL

  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 9 months ago by RavenManiac.
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  • August 16, 2016 at 7:09 pm #191402
    RavenManiac
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    As you probably know, WordPress typically defaults to something like this for the blog post URL: http://www.mycompany.com/theme/2014/04/03/hello-world/ I tend to prefer http://www.mycompany.com/hello-world/

    Should I be using http://www.mycompany.com/blog/hello-world/ or something else?

    Is there a BEST PRACTICE for setting up Blogs and the post URLs?

    August 20, 2016 at 9:36 am #191668
    Tribulatio
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    Well, as you rightly remark, this is partly a matter of taste.

    Beside taste, however, I think we should first pay attention to the kind of website we are runnning.

    If you are running a website meant to have merely a few pages, maybe with an update/addition once in a while (e.g. a few times a year), then your preferred solution (wirthout the date) looks reasonable: you do not want to make too obvious visitors that your last update was a year ago.

    On the other hand, if it is really a blog, with frequent updates (let's say at least once a month on average), then providing the date makes sense, Generally, for blogs or news websites, it is a good idea to make it possible for visitors to know from the URL when an article was published (although the date would usually also be found in the content for posts).

    From SEO perspective, I do not know if it matters or not - maybe other, more qualified participants will want to comment about that.

    August 20, 2016 at 11:37 am #191674
    RavenManiac
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    Good info and a lot to consider. I too am interested in which format is better for SEO.

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