http://www.labnol.org/forums/tags/post Help Center Tag: post - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:14:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.labnol.org/forums/search.php http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/starting-permalink-with-text-field-category-or-post-name-or-with-post-id#post-7492 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:23:31 +0000 ePandit 7492@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Amit, by observing your blog's permalink structure and that of many other top blogs around the net, I found that the two most popular permalink structures are:-</p> <p>example.com/%category%/%post-title%/ and example.com/%post-title%/</p> <p>Labnol uses, labnol.org/%category%/%post-title%/%post-id%/</p> <p>But, WordPress documentation (<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks</a>) strongly recommends not to use text fields (like %category%) in the starting of permalink structure for performance reasons instead it suggests to use a numeric field in the beginning (like %post-id%).</p> <blockquote><p>For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs (which always use the text "page slug" as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to start your permalink structure with a numeric field, such as the year or post ID.</p></blockquote> <p>Similar advice comes from this article (<a href="http://www.weberz.com/blog/2009/06/seo-experts-give-wrong-advice-wordpress-permalinksthis" rel="nofollow">http://www.weberz.com/blog/2009/06/seo-experts-give-wrong-advice-wordpress-permalinksthis</a> article). There is an interesting debate in the comments of this article.</p> <p>On the other side, many people use post-id in their permalink just for sake of inclusion in Google news, but some articles say that Google news no longer needs the numeric identifier in the urls (<a href="http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-news-no-longer-requires-stupid-numbers-in-the-url/)" rel="nofollow">http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-news-no-longer-requires-stupid-numbers-in-the-url/)</a>.</p> <p>So, if one is already planning to use post-id in his permalinks, is not it better to start permalink structure with post-id?. It makes URLs unique and database friendly.</p> <p>I think you must had taken into consideration this factor while deciding the permalink structure for DI.</p> <p>Waiting for your opinion about this. Whether to use post-id in the starting or at the end or do not use it at all? </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-7491 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:53:23 +0000 ePandit 7491@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>@Amit Here is an article which says adding three digit numbers is not maintadatory now for Google news, but I am not sure.</p> <p><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-news-no-longer-requires-stupid-numbers-in-the-url/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-news-no-longer-requires-stupid-numbers-in-the-url/</a></p> <p>The three digit no. need not to be added strictly at the end (<a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/news/thread?tid=303cc7948e0dbf0c&amp;hl=en)" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/news/thread?tid=303cc7948e0dbf0c&amp;hl=en)</a>, it can appear anywhere. I suggest to use it in the starting because WordPress documentation (<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks</a><br /> ) strongly recommends not to use text fields (like %category%) in the starting of permalink structure for performance reasons instead it suggests to use a numeric field in the beginning (like post-id). </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/comment-button-missing#post-7189 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:46:53 +0000 Riderwear 7189@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Riderwear offers <a href="http://www.riderwear.net/" rel="nofollow">Motorcycle Clothing</a>, Motorcycle Accessories, Motorcycle Helmets, Discount Motorcycle Leather Jackets, Motorcycle Gloves, Motorcycle Boots and cheap Bluetooth Helmets at cheap price. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/my-recent-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-posts-are-not-updated-by-google-search#post-6786 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:25:39 +0000 pkarun 6786@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Hello everybody I am also having the same problem as stated by asifsikandar even google stop indexing my blog (www.abouttricks.com) form 20th-oct-2009 until all post indexed quickly. Anyone having the solution for it ? </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5585 Sun, 10 May 2009 08:01:07 +0000 james_h 5585@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Anyone can explain this? Thanks in advance. </p> <p>James </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5395 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:06:27 +0000 james_h 5395@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>digisteps,</p> <p>I tried it out but it is not working, I set the permalink structure as /%category%/%postname%/%post_id% but I can still access the same post via both of the following URLs:</p> <p><a href="http://domain.com/category/post/id" rel="nofollow">http://domain.com/category/post/id</a><br /> and<br /> <a href="http://domain.com/category/post" rel="nofollow">http://domain.com/category/post</a></p> <p>Here are the actual test URLs:</p> <p><a href="http://blinkq.com/uncategorized/hello" rel="nofollow">http://blinkq.com/uncategorized/hello</a><br /> and<br /> <a href="http://blinkq.com/uncategorized/hello/77" rel="nofollow">http://blinkq.com/uncategorized/hello/77</a></p> <p>Would like to find the solution to this potential duplicate content issue. </p> <p>Thank you.<br /> James </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5383 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:07:04 +0000 digisteps 5383@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Hi Guys you can get it in wordpress like this --- Just change u r permalink structure to /%category%/%postname%/%post_id%, with this duplicate permalink problem will be solved </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5381 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:34:35 +0000 james_h 5381@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Hi, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I did a little research in canonical tag, it would prevent duplicate content issue by letting the webmaster to specify the primary URL. </p> <p>In this example, can you explain how the webmaster can specify this URL as primary? </p> <p>1. <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/4916/" rel="nofollow">http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/4916/</a></p> <p>and not this one: 2. <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/" rel="nofollow">http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/</a></p> <p>Since the same post can be access using one of those URL, one of them need to be the primary but I'm not sure how to get it done in Wordpress. </p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>James </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5355 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:28:17 +0000 technotip.org 5355@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>@james_h, I think, with the introduction(and implementation) of canonical tag, the internal duplicate content issues has been almost solved. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5336 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:55:08 +0000 james_h 5336@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for great resources. </p> <p>One question about this permalink. I can access the same post by removing the postid: <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/" rel="nofollow">http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/</a></p> <p>So if others link to your page by removing the postid, would this cause major duplicate content issue. </p> <p>James </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/my-recent-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-posts-are-not-updated-by-google-search#post-5165 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:58:44 +0000 asifsikandar 5165@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>My Robot.txt setting is:<br /> User-Agent: *<br /> Allow: /<br /> Allow: /blog<br /> Disallow: /blog/wp-admin<br /> Disallow: /blog/wp-includes<br /> Disallow: /cgi-bin<br /> Disallow: /blog/wp-admin<br /> Disallow: /blog/wp-includes<br /> Disallow: /blog/wp-content/plugins<br /> Disallow: /blog/wp-content/cache<br /> Disallow: /blog/wp-content/themes<br /> Disallow: /blog/trackback<br /> Disallow: /blog/feed<br /> Disallow: /blog/comments<br /> Disallow: /blog/category/*/*<br /> Disallow: */blog/trackback<br /> Disallow: */blog/feed<br /> Disallow: */blog/comments<br /> Disallow: /blog/*?*<br /> Disallow: /blog/*?<br /> Allow: /blog/wp-content/uploads</p> <p># Google Image<br /> User-agent: Googlebot-Image<br /> Disallow:<br /> Allow: /*</p> <p># Google AdSense<br /> User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*<br /> Disallow:<br /> Allow: /*</p> <p># Internet Archiver Wayback Machine<br /> User-agent: ia_archiver<br /> Disallow: /</p> <p># digg mirror<br /> User-agent: duggmirror<br /> Disallow: /</p> <p>Sitemap: <a href="http://www.makedollarathome.com/blog/sitemap.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.makedollarathome.com/blog/sitemap.xml</a><br /> ----------------------------------------------<br /> Yes, i have checked noindex for meta tags...<br /> -----------------<br /> yes, i am using xml sitemap plugin and my new posts are shown in sitemap...<br /> ---------<br /> and now google is removing my site from its index....wts the reason??? </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/my-recent-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-posts-are-not-updated-by-google-search#post-5159 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:50:20 +0000 Amit Banerjee 5159@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>@ asifsikandar</p> <p>1.have you checked your robots.txt file in the blog root ?<br /> 2.Have you checked the meta no index tag in your template ?<br /> 3.Are you using a XML sitemap.If yes,Are the new posts showing in the sitemap ? </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5156 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:47:09 +0000 Amit 5156@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Shakuni - My Permalink is something like this</p> <p>labnol.org/%category%/%post-title%/%post-id%/</p> <p>Google News requires that all permalinks must have a unique number.. tomorrow if I add more authors to Digital Inspiration and it becomes part of Google News, I won't have to rewrite any of the URLs. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5154 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:13:36 +0000 Amit Banerjee 5154@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Acording to my Knowledge The permalink /%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/ is good for seo as it:</p> <p>1.Avoids dynamic numbers in URLS ( e.g the default permalink involves ?p=postid)<br /> 2.Contains keywords in URL's which is always good for SEO.Another advantage is that this structure has the advantage of being served as better anchor texts if somebody links to an article by pasting the link only.<br /> 3.No dates in URLS.Numbers do not provide any advantage from SEO perspective<br /> 4.Categories Structure the content.</p> <p>Amit Agarwal is veteran and he certainly has a better explanation though. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/my-recent-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-posts-are-not-updated-by-google-search#post-5152 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:20:10 +0000 mohitsmith 5152@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Setup Ping services in your feedburner a/c and Google will definitely caches you Posts. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5146 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:35:18 +0000 shakuni 5146@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>ya, I know that. I mean, is that significant from SEO perspective? </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/my-recent-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-posts-are-not-updated-by-google-search#post-5145 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:10:39 +0000 OmShaadiOm 5145@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Same thing is happening to my blog.</p> <p>I made a free matrimonial website and a blog for the website, but now the blog is no more being indexed by google.</p> <p>I will try the above and see.</p> <p>Thanks and rgds</p> <p>Om Shaadi Om- The FULLY FREE Open Source alternative to paid matrimony </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5142 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:56:43 +0000 Amit Banerjee 5142@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Including the Post id makes sure that every URL in a Site is unique.So even if the Post slugs for two Posts may be same (accidentally) the post ID takes care that The URL's are different. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/please-explain-the-structure-of-your-permalink#post-5100 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:00:26 +0000 shakuni 5100@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Sir</p> <p>Can you please briefly explain the significance of using the postid in the permalinks, for instance,</p> <p><a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/4916/" rel="nofollow">http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-guide-do-everything-with-twitter/4916/</a></p> <p>Thank you for your time.<br /> shakuni </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/my-recent-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-posts-are-not-updated-by-google-search#post-4992 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:42:09 +0000 mfasil 4992@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>give our blog name.. say if your blog name is "smashtech" set alerts for the keywords smashtech and select the category as blogs.. then surely you ll get mail once your blog is updated.. if google index your blog.. </p>