Hi,

I was wondering what the best way is to have a product or image permalink. For example, when I upload an image or downloadable zipped product the permalink looks like this;

http:www.mysite.com/shop/wp-content/uploads/year/month/productname

Would it be best to clean this up & take out any information that would be irrelevant to search engines, such as year & month, so it looks like this;

http:www.mysite.com/shop/productname

Or would it be best to leave it alone as that information may be useful in the future (e.g. for database exports & imports onto csv)?

Thanks

Permalinks takes the actual link, and provides an alias for it on demand when the search engine visits your site. So you really aren't changing the directory structure or the real path to the files. You are just masking it to make it easier for users and search engines.

So go ahead and make the permalinks simpler. You won't lose anything.

Cheers,
Ed