Comments on: How Important Are SEO Friendly Permalinks? http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2008/08/importance-of-seo-friendly-permalinks.html Alexander Higgins -- Your Advocate For Change Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:01:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ivan | SEO Consultant.ie http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2008/08/importance-of-seo-friendly-permalinks.html#comment-3625 Ivan | SEO Consultant.ie Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:36:23 +0000 http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/?p=177#comment-3625 That small little feature in WordPress where you can customize your permalinks structure is a Killer from the SEO perspective. Having a ‘clean URL is extremely important from the SEO perspective. Please do not ask me why, it is pure experience. The part where BlogEngine has a problem is that it’s native URL’s – so not the one for the posts, but the one that display tags are also wrong. They look like this: http://www.seokonzultant.com/blog/?tag=/blogengine that is because it is essentially the search result. They should look like the categories links, like: http://www.seokonzultant.com/blog/category/Google.aspx and even that ‘.aspx’ is not needed there at all. Before those issues are addressed, the same content presented on BlogEngine and on WordPress – will result that a WordPress page gets up to several times more visitors than the BlogEngine ones. Now do you want your blog to bi red or not? :) BTW Alex, I forgot to write - Excellent article!!! That small little feature in WordPress where you can customize your permalinks structure is a Killer from the SEO perspective. Having a ‘clean URL is extremely important from the SEO perspective. Please do not ask me why, it is pure experience.

The part where BlogEngine has a problem is that it’s native URL’s – so not the one for the posts, but the one that display tags are also wrong. They look like this:

http://www.seokonzultant.com/blog/?tag=/blogengine

that is because it is essentially the search result.

They should look like the categories links, like:

http://www.seokonzultant.com/blog/category/Google.aspx

and even that ‘.aspx’ is not needed there at all.

Before those issues are addressed, the same content presented on BlogEngine and on WordPress – will result that a WordPress page gets up to several times more visitors than the BlogEngine ones. Now do you want your blog to bi red or not? :)

BTW Alex, I forgot to write - Excellent article!!!

]]> By: Steve Trefethen http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2008/08/importance-of-seo-friendly-permalinks.html#comment-963 Steve Trefethen Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:37:34 +0000 http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/?p=177#comment-963 Hi Alex, First, thanks for the link. I do however, think my remark was taken out of context and the comparison here is apples to oranges rather than like items. What I asked in reply to you was "Are you really that worried about search engines indexing perma links to _comments_?" (with emphasis on "comments") I wholeheartedly agree that permalinks for posts are critical and I think dasBlog does a decent job with that. As for comments I don't think permalinks are all that critical for SEO. An interesting side note, I find it valuable that dasBlog has a page title "CommentView" that gives the user a clue that the content could be some sort of comment to a post which could imply a conversation which is typically more meaningful than a standalone post. Anyway, you've made some good points but I did want to clarify my position. Hi Alex,
First, thanks for the link. I do however, think my remark was taken out of context and the comparison here is apples to oranges rather than like items. What I asked in reply to you was “Are you really that worried about search engines indexing perma links to _comments_?” (with emphasis on “comments”)

I wholeheartedly agree that permalinks for posts are critical and I think dasBlog does a decent job with that. As for comments I don’t think permalinks are all that critical for SEO.

An interesting side note, I find it valuable that dasBlog has a page title “CommentView” that gives the user a clue that the content could be some sort of comment to a post which could imply a conversation which is typically more meaningful than a standalone post.

Anyway, you’ve made some good points but I did want to clarify my position.

]]> By: Benchmarking Your Blog with Google Analytics | Alex Higgins Blog http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2008/08/importance-of-seo-friendly-permalinks.html#comment-79 Benchmarking Your Blog with Google Analytics | Alex Higgins Blog Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:19:55 +0000 http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/?p=177#comment-79 [...] poor site design such as spider traps and not paying attention to the the conventions you use in creating permalinks can prevent search engines from indexing your content. Again, you can use a tool like [...] [...] poor site design such as spider traps and not paying attention to the the conventions you use in creating permalinks can prevent search engines from indexing your content. Again, you can use a tool like [...]

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