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I set permalinks to be like this: /%category%/%post_name%/ and now i have nice links to posts:
site.com/seo/sample-post
site.com/ppc/sample-post
But i still have 'wrong' links to categories in sidebar categories menu and in posts meta:
site.com/categories/seo/
site.com/categories/ppc/
Clicking this link show the proper category page. Going directly to site.com/photography/ does the same, no errors.
I need to remove this extra word 'category', but how?
Thanx in advance for any ideas!
I think I had the same problem than yours when trying to implement nice permalink in Wordpress.
I went through Wordpress documentation and decided to follow their recommendation, that is to go for the safest permalink type in case of troubleshooting (the one that has date instead of category - /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/).
And this is what I did. It works great and no particular problem with other plugins.
My question to you is:
What is the advantage of having "category" instead of "date"?
If you think that it can increase you ranking because of category name appears in the URL, then I can say you are wrong. It may but it may not...
Why? Just because category pages should not be indexed by search engine (may be considered as double content). Same apply for tag pages, archive page, etc. In fact, you should make sure that only your main pages are indexed and put a "none" for all other pages, so that Search Engine only index relevant content (and don't index archives, categories, tags pages which are just double content, waste of time and pure waste).
My conclusion:
1/ Go for the safest permalink type /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
2/ Make sure that archives, categories, tags pages are not indexed by Search engine.
3/ Use Google Webmaster tools to monitor and rectify your robots.txt and create a clean and short sitemap.
