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    • UnderRugSwept
      UnderRugSwept last edited by

      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 @mad2k last edited by

        http://www.stadriemblems.com/

        Thanks!

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        • mad2k
          mad2k @mad2k last edited by

          Did you find any reason of site declining?

          Send me an url, I will take a look 🙂

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            UnderRugSwept @mad2k last edited by

            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

              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

                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 @NakulGoyal last edited by

                  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

                    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

                      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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