: Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO? I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks. I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and

@Turnbaugh106

The URL isn't important for SEO. And it's really logic, because otherwise everyone would spam it.

Just look at the most popular newspapers, which only use numbers in their URL, in order to keep it shorter.

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@Lee4591628

As long as the URLs are static there are only minor differences.

URL become part of the SERP and like with your page's title not
all characters are shown. So I decided against having the date as
part of my URL to make the URL shorter. This makes them also better
readable when written somewhere else.

Also I replace all special characters with the minus (-) sign.

Last but not least I preferred having the file-type .htm as part of
the URL because this makes clear that it refers to a page and not a
directory.

So my URL look like this: /articolo-d-esempio.htm

If you worry your URL might not be unique (I didn't) without the date
then you could put the date after the post title like this: /articolo-d-esempio-22042013.htm

(day and month might be sufficient...)

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