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Permalink: What is it good for?
I can see how it was important to have permalinks during the infant blogging days.
In its maturity it seems like a useless perk.
Looking at Popular blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo, TUAW, their permalink is the same as the post title link. Essentially it takes u to the same place. i.e., the comments page, with the complete article. thats what 99% of the blogs do.
For blogs like Boing Boing, which do not allow comments and have no post title links, have a need for permalink.
So conclusion, If u already have a page where ur users can see the whole post (namely post title links) then no need for permalinks. they are useless in that case.
If you do not have a dedicated page then make one and assign it to the post title and have no use for permalinks either.
Personally I dunno why boing boing doesn't have post title links. Sounds stupid to me. Its natural usage, click on the title to read the whole story. Form news sites to blogs all over have that same way of working, and boing boing takes it away.
In its maturity it seems like a useless perk.
Looking at Popular blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo, TUAW, their permalink is the same as the post title link. Essentially it takes u to the same place. i.e., the comments page, with the complete article. thats what 99% of the blogs do.
For blogs like Boing Boing, which do not allow comments and have no post title links, have a need for permalink.
So conclusion, If u already have a page where ur users can see the whole post (namely post title links) then no need for permalinks. they are useless in that case.
If you do not have a dedicated page then make one and assign it to the post title and have no use for permalinks either.
Personally I dunno why boing boing doesn't have post title links. Sounds stupid to me. Its natural usage, click on the title to read the whole story. Form news sites to blogs all over have that same way of working, and boing boing takes it away.
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Permalink. Now that is an interesting concept. Lets redefine the user's expectation of links. All links are un-Permalink, except for this one which we have labeled to specifically be a permalink. Despite the name, the lifetime of many blogs still lends these 'permanant links' to linkrot.
As for the term itself: Permalink. Its jargon. Its too wordy. It rolls off the tongue like an anvil. It mocks those who don't know what it means. It makes it appear OK to break the convention of naming your links meaningfully. It breaks the usability mantra not to link a page to itself. In many implementations, Wordpress among them, the title of the post is not clickable, yet both the permalink and comments link at the bottom are. Do they describe the article? I believe not.
I am all for the word fading away like a bad dream.
If you can reduce the number of URLs that renders your content, or provide Google and other search engines with a permalink to hint to them that there is a single piece of content, then you are not penalised for appearing to have duplicate content on your site. In theory.
Which is why I like the idea of removing this type of URL:
http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/6241/permalink-what-is-it-good-for/
When page spanning will additionally create this URL:
http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/6241/1/permalink-what-is-it-good-for/
Both those pages are identical. Content should ideally appear once on a domain, at one location. It shouldn't be possible to reach the same page through different URLs (appearing to have duplicate content), and for that reason permalinks are good as they are nice ways of hinting to search engines where the unique URL for a piece of content is.
The real problem the SEO community has is that no-one really knows how Google judge your site. Well, not all of the parameters. But it is known that you can be penalised for appearing to have a site full duplicated content.
reason no2. imagine you want to send this article to someone. same story.
finally, you just want to save it somewhere separately. and happens to be an item from someone else's blog which you just visited.
#2, if u wnat to send the same article to someone then send the post link. why permalink?
#Finally, So u want to just save the post itself, and want nothing else in it. Permalink of popular blogs don't do that either.
Lets face it. Permalink don't do any of the things people actually expect it to do.
but there's also aother thing. in a forum - unlike a blog - i'd like my comments pages to look different from the articles ones. for obvious reasons. on comments pages i don't want to be distracted by huge blocks of texts, on articles pages - by user-icons and such like.
it's an aesthetic experience as well, not merely a technocratic one. or at least it should be
and below they have Permalink link that says the exact same thing and points to the exact same page.
Have been gone stupid or what.
Not so proud of the clipboard menu, (you can disable it) but hey—I'm learning.
Why not just simplify the permalinks and comment date into one simple link? It's a very common convention — I believe this is how WordPress handles permalinks within the comments. It makes the layout cleaner and give the permalinks better SEO context.