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I agree with you. The problem with changing your URL structure is that when you go back to all your past posts, if you cross-link any of them, it breaks all the links.

Does Dreamhost have a tutorial on re-writing urls or is there a better one out there that you know of?

The best .htaccess tutorial I have found is the one I linked to in the article: Comprehensive guide to .htaccess on javascriptkit.com. Not sure if it covers that specific topic, but it’s the first place I would look.

A few links:
redirecting and rewriting
Clean URLs
mod_rewrite cheat sheets

Well I guess the date in the URL is good if you’re writing a lot of articles with the same name. :)

I agree; the date structure is naggingly-long. I prefer http://site.com/section/category/title, but that isn’t possible out of the box for TXP. For now, I think http://site.com/section/title is better than http://site.com/title, since it’s more future-proof. Too bad there wasn’t an easy way to update all the search engines of any URL changes.

Well, my content is organized by categories, not sections. I really wish TXP supported categories in clean URLs, because my ideal structure would be www.site.com/category/title. Unfortunately, www.site.com/section/title has no semantic value for me, so it won’t do.

I made a similar decision recently. I decided to go with subdomains and I used a WordPress plugin to automate it. Each category gets a new subdomain. So far it hasn’t improved my SE traffic, but I think it will work out for the best in the long run. I think your idea to shorten the URL is good, in fact I think I read that Google prefers shorter URLs.

What I find most frustrating is the ID number which is included in the url structure. As I use wordpress for publishing purposes other than simply blogging, I am unable to re-arrange my content once it has been posted. If I do so, I lose the benefit of these previously indexed pages, including the PR. Does anyone know of a plugin that can help me with this?

Can anyone help me with this dillema. When you click on the next post link, the URL of on the next page has a page number in it. For example: http://www.site.com/page/2/

Is it possible to get rid of this and have the actual URL of the post listed. I fear that with more than one URL for the same post, google will penalize me for duplicate content. Would this be the case?

John, a simple solution to your problem is changing the permalink structure.

You can do this quite simply by changing: ’/%category%/%post_id%/%postname%/’ to ’/%category%/%postname%/’.

Simple as that.

Yes maybe you’re right but shorter url is better url for seo – i prefer domain.com/url/ or domain.com/category/url .

Well I guess the date in the URL is good if you’re writing a lot of articles with the same name. :)

Good article. Thank you.
I had the pleasure to work with Wordpress on a project lately and I use SEO URL : mydomain.com/category/name-url/
I have use a plugin and this becomes all alone!

I think – http://yourdomain.com/category/title – is the best way. Or each category gets a new subdomain.

I thought the short url is the best, but for many articles the date is not bad in the url…

Does Dreamhost have a tutorial on re-writing urls or is there a better one out there that you know of?

I think dreamhost have no tutorial on re-writing urls!

I narrowly agree.
I think it´s better to make new construct with a new URL.

Yes maybe you’re right but shorter url is better url for seo – i prefer domain.com/url/ or domain.com/category/url .

It´s a good idea and i will try it. But i also think that a short url is better.

In my opinion the rule should always be: keep it simple!

The better URL ist the URL which is more search engine friendly. A good idea is: The URL should have the same structure than the navigation menue!

You have a little Error in your Text.

The rewrite rule in the .htacess file is what all

It is .htaccess :)

The rewrite rule in the .htacess file is what all

Nobody else has noticed this, excellent ;-).

@Anne Clark: I agree completely. And this structure meets the requirements of Google, that the Google bot and the human visitors should see the same content of a website.

it is fascinating, that there are people who realize every little mistake. The Link works also with this mistyping, so what is the reason to post it here? But not to the main topic: as a user, I prefer a Short URL. If you want to store it or copie it for example in document or excel(not everyone use bookmarks all the time), than this is an advantage.

Yes maybe you’re right but shorter url is better url for seo – i prefer domain.com/url/ or domain.com/category/url .

I think writing URL structure this way also helps to increase keyword density, rather than distracting Search Engine spider with date combination.

What I find most frustrating is the ID number which is included in the url structure. As I use wordpress for publishing purposes other than simply blogging, I am unable to re-arrange my content once it has been posted. If I do so, I lose the benefit of these previously indexed pages, including the PR. Does anyone know of a plugin that can help me with this?

I also prefer title instead of the date in the url. But I also try to find the golden medium since I have heard/read too that google prefers shorter urls and from a SEO point of view every detail(even the smallest) matters.