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  • UnderRugSwept
    UnderRugSwept last edited by Feb 9, 2012, 7:35 PM

    Mostly everyone seems to agree that /%category%/%postname%/ is the best blog structure.

    I'm thinking of changing my structure to that because now it's structured by date which is bad. But almost all of my posts are assigned to more than one category. Won't this create duplicate pages?

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    • UnderRugSwept
      UnderRugSwept @mad2k last edited by Feb 27, 2012, 11:37 AM Feb 27, 2012, 11:37 AM

      http://www.stadriemblems.com/

      Thanks!

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      • mad2k
        mad2k @mad2k last edited by Feb 26, 2012, 8:27 PM Feb 26, 2012, 8:27 PM

        Did you find any reason of site declining?

        Send me an url, I will take a look 🙂

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        • UnderRugSwept
          UnderRugSwept @mad2k last edited by Feb 23, 2012, 4:47 PM Feb 23, 2012, 4:47 PM

          Yes, our positions are gradually declining, and I'm trying everything I can, no matter how seemingly small, until I can figure out why.

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          • mad2k
            mad2k @UnderRugSwept last edited by Feb 23, 2012, 4:39 PM Feb 23, 2012, 4:39 PM

            Hi again 🙂

            I think that depends on what is the position of your site now. If it's good there is no pressure to do changes in other case you can take a risk. In my opinion good structure of content help in SEO an if I were in your situation i would take a risk of change.

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            • UnderRugSwept
              UnderRugSwept last edited by Feb 10, 2012, 7:01 PM Feb 10, 2012, 7:01 PM

              Another question is which would be worse for SEO: leaving it the way it is, categorized by month and date, or changing the whole structure when I have dozens of posts?

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              • UnderRugSwept
                UnderRugSwept @NakulGoyal last edited by Feb 10, 2012, 12:00 PM Feb 10, 2012, 11:42 AM

                Thanks for the input. The reason I'm worried about duplicate pages is because what i temporarily switched everything to category/postname, I could access pages many different ways.

                category1/postname/page

                category2/postname/page

                anothercategory/postname/page

                Were all the same page. Duplicate content?

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                • NakulGoyal
                  NakulGoyal last edited by Feb 9, 2012, 9:14 PM Feb 9, 2012, 9:14 PM

                  I agree with Marek. However, there's value in having the Category in there specially if your categories are keyword rich. Don't worry about duplicate pages. One post will only have one default category in the Slug (Most of the times, its the 1st one you selected in Wordpress). I also sometimes like to use /%category%/%postname%.html or /%category%/%postname%.php which gives the effect of pages under a folder, vs folder inside a folder. Just my 2c.

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                  • mad2k
                    mad2k last edited by Apr 2, 2012, 4:24 PM Feb 9, 2012, 8:04 PM

                    Hi Marisa,

                    I'm using /%postname% and in my opinion it is a best structure ... but ... in that kind of structure is important to care about slug and to prevent creation of duplicated titles.

                    /the-best-solution  is a good slug

                    //the-best-solution-2  is not a good slug

                    I don't have duplicated pages cos WordPress has mechanism which check the slug in real time when you creating a post.

                    I think that  /%postname% is the most friendly link structure.

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