Comments on: Best WordPress Permalink Structure

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:39:41 +0000

Hi Kelly,
For three reasons:
a) You need the URL to be unique and including the id guarantees that.
b) If you are trying to optimise the page for SEO, you want your keyword to appear as early as possible in the URL and the id will only add 4 or 5 characters before it in the URL.
c) You can use the id as a shortened URL as people can get to that post just with the id.
Hope that helps.

By: Kelly Hayford

Kelly Hayford — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:06:26 +0000

Why do you use the id# in it as well and not just the post name?

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:51:18 +0000

Thanks Chris, glad it was useful.

By: chris dixon

chris dixon — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:27:03 +0000

A good read. I’m on a very steep learning curve developing my business and website. These kind of articles help a lot.