Comments on: How to Set Up Permalinks: WordPress Tip #2

By: James Mann

James Mann — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:16:35 +0000

In my humble opinion changing your PermaLinks is vital to a well optimized blog but to make a change like that could mess things up while the search engines re-index your pages.

I found a WordPress plugin that will help with permalink migrations:

http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

When I made the change in my permalinks I had almost 100 posts and didn’t want to mess things up so I was motivated to find something that would help.

I hope this helps.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:21:51 +0000

Well, in my blog I wanted to stick with one category per post for SEO purposes. I also wanted to stay with a relatively small number of categories. So picking a set of categories that worked for my niche and sticking with them was pretty important for me. I’d tried it the other way, and quickly found the list of categories getting out of hand.

If you’re using multiple categories per post, and don’t care much about the number of categories you use, then it isn’t as much of an issue.

By: pelf

pelf — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:10:22 +0000

Well, I personally think that we do not have to settle down with specific categories because the categories can easily be changed. Moreover, we may want to re-arrange our categories from time to time according to the needs of the blog.

For example, you may find yourself posting more on certain topics (e.g. WordPress-related) and you may want to break it down to more specific categories, e.g. WordPress tips and WordPress plugins.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:27:06 +0000

That is a great tip Jay. I can’t say that I have been too good about this. However, you might have gotten me back on track.

Thanks

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:13:21 +0000

Another “first thing” task is to figure out what categories you want to use. I ended up changing my category list after a month of daily posting, and it was a pain to go back and edit every post, plus losing any category backlinks I’d accumulated.

Definitely do permalinks and categories as soon as humanly possible when you start a blog.

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By: fred

fred — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:14:20 +0000

Tracey,

It really depends on how many backlinks you already have. I you don’t mind losing some of those then do it now. The sooner the better. However, it is not the end of the world if you don’t change them. But if you can, I would.

By: tracey

tracey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:57:26 +0000

I didn’t know you can do that.
my blog is 2 months old..i post daily..is it 2 late to change now…

will change be automatic ,???