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I wonder if it is possible to "move" all posts into the page structure. Reason is that it would be great SEO but not sure what problems it would cause with Wordpress it self.

Currently I have a site structure looking like domain.com/seo/a-great-sub-page

I also have a blog that will have one category about SEO and as in standard it looks like domain.com/category/seo/a-great-post

This is a problem for me SEO wise as I will have alot more posts than pages in the structure and that will in the end make the posts rank better than my page. Preferably I want when someone searches for "SEO" find the page.

My thought to solve this would to arrange IA wise all blogposts into the page structure with a rewrite rule, but thats where I ran into the bricks.

My thought was simply to keep the SEO category structure for all categories, but I would want the url of all posts to inherit the page structure, like domain.com/seo/a-great-post

With that structure each blog post would strengthen the IA of SEO and making the posts push for the page, rather then the opposite. From an SEO point of view this would be a really elegant solution, but how about the wordpress part?

Is this possible, and in that case how? What are the cons? Will tag structure, archive page etc still work?

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Have you read the documentation about Permalinks? And, do you use SEO by Yoast plugin or similar? – brasofilo Feb 15 at 8:40

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Cons you where asking for:

  1. Pages can not be tagged. But you can create custom taxonomy and write mySQL query to convert tags to that taxonomy. Headache.
  2. Pages does not have archives. But you can write mySQL query to create pages with same names as categories and convert each category posts to respective children pages. Headache.
  3. From SEO point of view there is no any noticeable benefit of using keywords in URL except better information structure presentation. But I don't see the big difference in structure between domain.com/category/seo/a-great-post and domain.com/seo/a-great-post. Also it's possible to remove /category piece from URL.
  4. When you change URL structure of your site, you have to redirect each old URL to the new one. Otherwise it will cost you some time out of SERP first page(s) and 404 errors for people coming from search results. Depending on page number and inbound link quantity and quality. Headache.

Conclusion: it's possible. But very expensive in terms of time spent with no purpose.

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