Re: Permalink URL format?

[Casey Bisson]

Alex,

You can configure the permalink format using the standard WordPress
options. I recommend using numeric permalinks (ex: http://library.plymouth.edu/read/184908
), as the database lookups for title permalinks require a lot of CPU.

Still, WordPress is built for SEO, and there are lots of small details
that help. My top three:

Simply having permalinks allows others to link to bibliographic
records, hugely improving the rank of those records.
Most WP themes put the title of the post -- or in Scriblio's case, the
book -- in the HTML <title> tag.
The use of good markup inside the records makes it easy to pull
keywords from them.

Searches are also permalinkable. Examples:

http://library.plymouth.edu/search/game%20design%20gaming
http://library.plymouth.edu/browse/?auth=monninger%2C+joseph

You'll find a bit more in a previous thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/scriblio/browse_thread/thread/da84186cb239abf9

--Casey

On Apr 14, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Alejandro Garza Gonzalez wrote:

> What's the format of the permalink URLs you are using in scriblio?
> Are you putting the book title in there, or things like author, etc.?
>
> Perhaps a larger question would be: how are you tweaking
> (maximizing) your items' "findability" on Google?