[wp-hackers] Some Thoughts/Enhancement Ideas In And Around TheCategory Side Of Things

Mark McWilliams admin at wpkid.com
Thu Feb 11 01:24:27 UTC 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Some Thoughts/Enhancement Ideas In And Around 
TheCategory Side Of Things


> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Mike Schinkel 
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>> On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Otto wrote:
>>> I find it amazing, and more than a little humorous, at how far people
>>> will go just because they don't want the word "category" in their URL.
>>
>> One important consideration, the deeper the path structure the less 
>> likely Google will rank the page highly in search results. FWIW.

> You are mistaken. Sorry. Google doesn't care about paths or total URL
> length. It *does* care about the last part of the path, and that
> should always be your post-name, because Google parses those words and
> uses them as keywords for the post.

And when did I ever bring up the topic of Google and/or SEO? - OK so I 
didn't, but that's another kettle of fish, what I think we should talk is 
about enhancing the /category/ or /whatever/ someone creates as their Custom 
Taxonomy, being as it currently does nothing! 



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