Removing (year, month, day) permalink

[CharlesClarkson]

Originally Posted by Hawaii-Broker

I've thought of removing the (year, month, day) date from WordPress day and name based permalinks (post urls) before. I found this editorial about doing this. As far as SEO is concerned, it seems this might be the best thing to do, is it?

No one really knows. The algorithms used by search engines are secret and most of SEO is a guess. Sometimes they are highly researched guesses with a strong possibility of being right and sometimes they are not even close. Read as much about SEO as you can and make up your own mind.

Originally Posted by Hawaii-Broker

Also, let just say I followed the directions on the link below. Would that just affect every post from then on?

It would affect all of your posts past and future posts.

Originally Posted by Hawaii-Broker

What else happens to what?

Anyone looking for an old post at the old location needs to be rerouted to the new location. That is explained in the article you referenced.

Originally Posted by From the article

... but once this is done, any incoming links will need to be redirected to the new permalinks by use of a rewrite rule or you may risk losing your inbound traffic to the old permalinks or worse yet, lose previous page rank and index placement for those posts.

HTH,