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So you’ve read Wordpress Setup Part 1 and setup Wordpress so it has nice, pretty, descriptive URLs. Now you’re done right? Well, not exactly. Wordpress default installs are great for crawlability, meaning that because it has links all over the place, the search engines can always find a path to any article. On the bad side, they can often find six or ten paths to any article. Once upon a time (okay, before Wordpress 2.3), you had to worry about actual posts having multiple URLs, but that issue has pretty much disappeared. There is typically only one path to a page, but this doesn’t mean you can’t end up with duplicate content and wasted link juice.
»Read on to master duplicate content and meta titles in Wordpress...

Wordpress URLs by default aren’t real helpful. They give your visitor no information about the page. They add nothing to the information in your search listings. And they tell the search engines nothing about your page. That’s three wasted opportunities and it’s dead simple to fix.
»Read more about Friendly URLs in Wordpress...

Someone asked whether or not you could set the timestamp to something like June 4, 1848. I figured it would depend on whether I can date it in the distant past. Wordpress uses a MySQL datetime field, so in theory it should take any date after January 1, 1000. So here goes…

Update: well, as you can see, it will only go back as far as December 31, 1969. So the historian who wants to create a blog where the posts are dated according to the even being discussed is out of luck.