RE: Communities vs. Blogs

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Communities vs. Blogs

in seo •  last month 

My brain is currently entirely into steemd and SDS development, as I want to finally finish this version over the next few weeks. I guess I would still tend more to a complete/clean solution (adding a community field in the json_metadata) instead of a workaround, but I need to give it more thoughts when I find some more time for this...

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No problem, there's no rush - I will test if the idea's feasible.

I don't think this idea is a work around. It's essentially returning the URL back to how it was before communities existed - where the first tag defines the internal (and therefore external) link.

Instead of the internal link being:

/(hive-xxxxxx)/(username)/(permlink)

It's

/(1st-tag)/(username)/(permlink)

If the community makes more sense, it could probably be:

/(communityName)/(username)/(permlink)

without too much effort.

It feels like a fairly elegant and straightforward solution.

A question for me is what happens to the SEO value of these posts if a community decides to change name. Which makes my current preference using the 1st tag (non hive-xxxx).

@remlaps

This works:

This is the feeds code.

Instead of always using the category, if it starts with 'hive-xxxxxx', it replaces this with the 1st tag.

Returning Steemit to the old SEO URL value in 4 new and 1 edited lines of code (+ 1 comment + 3 empty lines for readability).