Having dates in your urls is just about as cool as wearing Reebok Pumps when playing basketball… in the 21st century
Read this article by Aaron Wall over at Search Engine Land about reasons why not to use dates in URLs. Unluckily for me (or, I guess you might say it’s good because I don’t have to write it all up!), I was going to write a post pretty much like his. His four reasons as to not use dates in URLs:
- Dates convey irrelevant information
- Dates suggest old, stale news
- Dates make sharing URLs more difficult
- Dates can cause Robots.txt errors
Good stuff! Agreed on all accounts. I guess you could say that having dates in your URL is about as cool as hitting the local gym with a pair of Reebok Pumps… in the 21st century 
If you do have dates in your URLs, may I suggest you use Dean’s Permalinks Migration for Wordpress; super easy to fix it up anyway you want it.
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