Removing the date in the URL.

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  geboortekaartjes · Member · May 27, 2010 at 10:30 am

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  Hi all,

  I am working on a blog, and i notice that WordPress is putting the date in the url.
  I like to work with clean url’s. Is there a way to avoid, remove this in further blogposts?

  yours sincerely,

  Melvin

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · May 27, 2010 at 10:37 am

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  That cannot be removed in WordPress.COM. It can be removed (although it is not adviseable) in WordPress.ORG blogs.

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  geboortekaartjes · Member · May 27, 2010 at 10:46 am

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  Thank you!

  I think it shouldn’t be there in the first place. A small url is a good url!

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  raincoaster · Member · May 27, 2010 at 10:47 am

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  Just so long as you know that you and Google think very, very differently.

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  hanni · Member · May 27, 2010 at 10:52 am

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  I’m afraid not, as here at WordPress.com you can’t change the permalink structure for posts.

  Only pages don’t have dates:

  Pages vs. Posts

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  geboortekaartjes · Member · May 27, 2010 at 11:40 am

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  Isn’t it important for google to have a clean url with keywords for google then? I’m a marketing student and am willing to learn!

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  raincoaster · Member · May 27, 2010 at 12:32 pm

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  WordPress.com URLs are specially configured for google-friendliness. Shorter URLs are not better.

  One of the tasks I spend two hours a day doing is linkblogging, and dates in the URL help not only search engines but also humans find the freshest information on your blog.

  The worst is when a post looks something like whatever.com/p=1234