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Blog Permalinks and Feeds

By Ahson Rafiq in Blogging on 3rd December 2007

**First of all sorry about the last 2 posts in my feed**

Now lets get on with it, people care alot about se-friendly on their blog and they do want to rank high on serps too and wand to make the right choice, to be honest the following is the most effective and relevant url structure for a blog:

/Category/Post-Name.html

Now if you cover alot of topics on your blog and want to get maximum SERPs then you will need to go with the following structure

/Post-Name/

I’m not saying that this url structure will help you alot but it sure will give you the nudge/push you need to get that extra edge in serps, along the keyworded url/title/meta tags you are good to go to nail a keyword!

As for feeds, most people add feedburner yet leave links to domain.com/feed/ live on their site, i know that theres a redirection up on domain,com/feed/ but for whatever time it may take them to redirect to the feedburner url, you might lose 1 subscriber for that.

Personally feed advertising (spread) is the best part of making a blog in my opinion, only the most relevant people will subscribe to your blog, if they have an interest in SEO/Marketing/MMO they will subscribe to mine, and whenever i post something they’ll be actually interested in reading whatever it is that i have to say or post about.

The best trick ever to get more subscribers is linking to your feed or leading people TO your feed from as many places as possible, either that or viral content/link bait works good too, if you are losing subscribers then that only means that you lost the people that weren’t interested in what you have to say anyway and you can’t make money off of them any=dang-way.

If they don’t want to read it why would they wanna participate? Think about it :)



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One Response to “Blog Permalinks and Feeds”

  1. anant shrivastava Says:

    thanks for the advice,
    till now i have been using
    YYYY/MM/DD/post_title

    as my url,
    I hope this can work too, but from nowon i will try to make it
    /post_title
    only.

    thanks for the advice again.

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