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Wordpress, categories and SEO (7 posts)

  1. klezmer41
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    I'm wondering if it's better for SEO to have subdomains or folder categories, like this:

    sanfrancisco.myblog.com/2009/04/02/title-of-post
    http://www.myblog.com/sanfrancisco/2009/04/02/title-of-post

    Or, would it be better to remove the category altogether and have all posts under the root level: http://www.myblog.com/2009/04/02/title-of-post

    What's best practice and what's best for SEO?

  2. andrea_r
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    /category/title/

    And good content.

  3. kgraeme
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    Also, good aggregation of sub-blogs onto the main blog is key to getting the googlebot to crawl the sub-blogs, regardless of subdomain or subdirectory installs.

    Subdirectory mode should add to your overall domain's pagerank but at an individual page pagerank level, the two URL approaches should be about even.

  4. klezmer41
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    Andrea, is there any reason why you'd go with /category/title/ rather than just /title/ ?

  5. andrea_r
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    For possible category/post title conflicts.

  6. klezmer41
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    If an article is always in a /year/month/day/title format, would that fully mitigate the issue?

  7. andrea_r
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    Yes, but it wouldn't be "better" SEO. :)

    You can do just /postname/. I'm only mentioning possibly category name conflicts so you know ahead of time.

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