| \u00a0<\/td>\n | \u2022<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n| Your permalink structure should start with a numeric field not a text field structure tag.\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0<\/td>\n | \u2022<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n | Your permalink structure does not need to include a category structure tag.\u00a0 A category structure tag may offer a very slight SEO benefit, but the benefit is probably very little if any.\u00a0 Your post name structure tag on the other hand is very important for SEO.\u00a0 If you want to include a category structure tag in your permalink structure it is a text field structure tag so it should not come first in your custom permalink structure.\u00a0 A category structure tag used correctly will cause a slight loss of website perfomance.\u00a0 A category structure tag used incorrectly will cause a very significant loss of website performance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0<\/td>\n | \u2022<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n | Your permalink structure should end with a structure tag that points to an individual post.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | WordPress Permalink Examples:<\/span><\/h2>\nThe text field permalink structure tags are:\u00a0 %postname%, %category%, %author% and %tag% You could also create you own additional custom structure tags, but that would require creating your own custom taxonomy tags (coding work).<\/p>\n \/%year%\/%postname%\/<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n \/%year%\/%post_id%\/<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n \/%post_id%\/%postname%\/<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n The examples above follow the 3 basic rules for creating a permalink that has the best performance:\u00a0 permalink structure starts with a numeric field structure tag, the category text field structure tag is not used at all and the permalink structure tags ends with structure tags that point to individual posts.<\/p>\n NOTE: \u00a0As of WordPress 3.3 you no longer need to add a numeric Tag before a Text Tag for performance reasons. \u00a0So basically the best Custom Permalink Structure would now just be simply \/%postname%\/ for SEO purposes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 Permalinks for Best Performance and SEO:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \/%year%\/%postname%\/<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n \/%post_id%\/%postname%\/<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n The example above does not include the \/%year%\/%post_id%\/<\/strong> permalink structure because you would end up with an URL that would look like this \/2011\/1234.\u00a0 This would obviously not be a good permalink structure to use for SEO.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Permalink for\u00a0Good Performance and SEO:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \/%post_id%\/%category%\/%postname%\/<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n AITpro.com is currently using this WordPress Permalink Structure even though it comes with a slight decrease in overall website performance.\u00a0 This permalink structure choice is for personal reasons and the slight decrease in website\u00a0performance is an acceptable tradeoff for our intended reasons.\u00a0 Using the %category%<\/strong> structure tag is not recommended.\u00a0 The recommended best permalink structures would be the examples shown in example 2.<\/p>\n WordPress Permalink Reference Links<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n WordPress Codex – Using Permalinks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Why Not to Use Category in Permalinks<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n |
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