Obviously I can't say for sure, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Google's pretty smart at reading post titles, and the URL doesn't seem to give any extra weight. My posts come at the top for popular phrases even with a short URL. Not sure they could rank any higher, really.
Example: google Night Life in Twin Peaks - the name of one of my recent videos and also a track in the Twin Peaks soundtrack from 1991 - 317,000 results, and my post is #2 after the Last.fm page for the soundtrack, despite the name not being in the URL - and ranking above all the other results *with* the name in the URL. Obviously,this doesn't prove anything by itself, but you can try it with lots of my post titles - same thing. Even when I use popular phrases as post titles. I wouldn't sweat it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Nov-08, at 11:25 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can change it in Settings > Permalinks. > Personally, I like the post number format. It keeps the URL short, > which means I don't need to shorten it to a TinyURL in emails, on > this list, or on Twitter. I can't think of many occasions I've found > a "human readable" link useful. someone can correct me if im wrong, but i think human readable URL's help with searches. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
