Father of Permalinks and SEO
I’ve been playing with different permalink structures on my site. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been using /category/title. Supposedly this is the most search engine optimized, however, it frustrates me greatly since the category of a post can and does change.
I’m going to settle on /year/month/title. This is more stable and will be simpler to manage in the archive. Some links may be sketchy — I’ll get them fixed over time. Google is probably pretty upset with me right now, but my sitemap is updated and correct.
Smart move. Using year/month URLs also makes it easy to sort web stats by month to calculate things like top posts by month or year. Dates also give context to posts for people considering clicking through. If they’re looking for recent stuff they’ll click through or ignore based on the relevancy of the URL.
I use the same – category/title. So just tell me how you innovation works, may be, I will do the same.