Keywords in URL - WordPress Blog

Hello:

I blog using WordPress at http://convergence.in/blog. At first I was
looking for short permlinks and thus opted for the structure, something
like http://convergence.in/blog/archives/100


My blog is indexed currently indexed as
http://convergence.in/blog/archives/*


I intend to do the following. Change the permlink structure to format
such as
http://convergence.in/blog/2006/07/1...oadband-gaming



and then using Google API get all the links listed in Google Cache and
do a permanant redirect to new URLs. Is this illegal ? If so what
alternative methods do you suggest ?


OR Is it a bad idea to change the permlink structure and its just of
very least importance to have keywords in URL ?


Expert opinion and thoughts are appreciated.


Thanks.

chetan.patil (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hello:

I blog using WordPress at http://convergence.in/blog. At first I was
looking for short permlinks and thus opted for the structure, something
like http://convergence.in/blog/archives/100

My blog is indexed currently indexed as
http://convergence.in/blog/archives/*

I intend to do the following. Change the permlink structure to format
such as
http://convergence.in/blog/2006/07/1...oadband-gaming

and then using Google API get all the links listed in Google Cache and
do a permanant redirect to new URLs. Is this illegal ? If so what
alternative methods do you suggest ?


OR Is it a bad idea to change the permlink structure and its just of
very least importance to have keywords in URL ?

For Google, it apparently doesn't matter so much what keywords are in the
URL, -- EXCEPT that when you get a link to your site where they use the URL
for the link text, for example a link to you with link text like this:

http://www.example.com/articles/my-post-title-here

....then your keywords are automatically included in your IBL text. That
previous IBL would be much better than one like this:

http://www.example.com/articles/3482...43,324545.html

For your blog, it probably doesn't matter as much. Just a specualtion here,
but tech blogs are generally linked to by technically-aware people. So
they probably won't as often link to you with the URL as the link text. I
wouldn't change the URLs on your blog. Possible complications outweigh the
possibly benefits in my opinion.

I would change your <title>s though. Put the post title in your <title>
tag.

<title>post title | blog name</title>


Optimizing the WordPress title:
http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/

WordPress theme cheat sheets here:
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/a...e-cheat-sheet/