It is commonly seen people use "%category%/%post name%" as the URL structure for their Wordpress blogs. Is it the best one? Today I read a post and it said the best one is "%post name%.html". Is it true? I don't know.
It also said the shorter URL is better than the longer one. The SEO slugs plugin is recommended because this wordpress plugin can help to remove stop words like "a", "the", etc. It turns out this blogger's blog is using /%year%/%monthnum%/%post name%.html. Is it interesting? I think it is very interesting.
The permalink structure should be started with a number like "year" or "postID" and ended with either "post ID" or "postname".
If your blog's permalink structure is not optimized, you can change it anytime you want. But when changing it, you also need a permalink redirect Wordpress plugin to arrange a proper redirection from your older link to the new link. Otherwise, your reader may get a 404 page.
Even though it is quite convenient to change permalink structure in Wordpress, it doesn't mean that you should change it frequently since you don't know what search engines will response to your link changes.
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