I recently made a big change to my SFM blog. What was this change?
I changed the URL structure from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to %/%postname%/. So I removed the year, month and day parameters from all of my blog post URL’s. Here is an example of my previous URL Structure:
http://www.scopeformoney.com/2008/04/27/top-5-ppccpc-advertising-programs/
And Now It becomes:
http://www.scopeformoney.com/top-5-ppccpc-advertising-programs
So what do you think is the better URL? There are some people who used to show their category as well, being a part of their URL. So in that case, their permanent URL Structure will become: /%category%/%postname%/. With this, I have smaller, meaningful, easy to remember, generic and SEO friendly URLs. I will not have any problem in case I switch to any other blogging platform in near future.
And how I did this SEO Friendly URL Migration?
There is a Permalinks migration Plugin available for WordPress blogs designed by Dean Lee. Best thing about this plugin is that, it will do SEO friendly and permanent redirect. This plugin use 301 redirect while migrating your old URL’s to the new URL’s format. So your posts will not lose any page rank, backlinks or rankings in the long run with this plugin.
With this URL format enabled, I will have the flexibility of republishing my blog posts quite easily as the post URL will remain the same even if I change the publishing date. But if you are thinking of republishing any of your old posts just after installing this URL migration plugin, wait for some days by the time Google stores all of your new URL’s into your database. And if you happen to publish any of your content just after migrating your URL’s, you will be storing your content into a new URL and the URL stored in search engines database will show 404 error.
Have you made your mind of switching to this URL format for your WordPress blogs, use this SEO friendly plugin. Drop me a comment if you have any doubts or face problems in installing this WordPress URL Migration Plugin from Dean Lee website.
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I think it is a good change. I use just postname for the permalinks on all the new blogs I build now. Before I did it the same as you did with the date in it but I wish I never would have done that. I could change it as you did but so far I have just kept it that way if it’s the way I started it. From now on it’s always just post name though.
SEO friendly URL’s are always helpful. Sometimes it’s hard to get it just right. Good going on the tweaking of your URL’s.
The Simple Permalink Structure is liked by search Engines