Permalinks and Google spam penalties

  • I notice permalinks converts the title of each post into a subdirectory URL. When these get really long, resulting from long titles, is it possible this could trigger the spam filters of Google or Yahoo? I figure excessively long directory names in URLs might give the appearance of keyword stuffing or spam software. If I use permalinks, should I keep my post titles short to avoid this problem?

    Some people claim wordpress’s default query strings that contain ‘?’ are not as SE friendly as permalinks, but could permalinks also come at a risk? Before I enabled permalinks, I did notice google indexing the default wordpress URLs with no problem.

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  • I switched permalinks because of this thread. I’m now simply using the postname. Thankfully, there were only a couple dozen posts that I had to redirect in .htaccess.

    Netdetective, I was getting loads of search engine traffic. Hopefully the new format will cut back on that. My busiest time is around lunch (10-14 CST), and having a bunch of robots on at the same time doesn’t help. It doesn’t hurt much, as they don’t use up a lot of resources, but it certainly doesn’t help.

    You know, you can always specify your permalink address by writing in your own “post slug” for your post or page in the WP admin panel. That way if you are overly worried about long post or page names you can make them shorter. Don’t really think there is a problem though.

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