Many SEO Experts Give Wrong Advice Regarding WordPress Permalinks
Update 1/4/2011: The problems described in this article regarding WordPress functionality breaking due to permalink structures have been fixed in version 3.0 and higher. Now the permalink structure suggested by the people mentioned in this article is the best solution for SEO optimized URL’s. However the WordPress Codex, the official WordPress documentation, still suggests that you should start your permalink structure with a number for performance reasons. In most WordPress sites, the performance hit caused using the permalink structure suggested by the SEO experts below would not be large enough to out-weigh the SEO benefits.
Let us start by giving …