Here was an interesting post on the best wordpress permalink structure - interesting that Matt Cutts weighed in as well.  The comments section here - where I weighed in -  really disproves the central thesis of the blog post.  There has been a lot of ink spilled on this topic and this should be the final word for some time to come. If you're wondering about SEO and wordpress then you should come around soon to realizing that Wordpress is an incredible, awesome platform for creating blogs and static sites that are quite optimized. Matt Cutts popped into a few sessions at SMX last week and confused people.  Nothing new  - it seems that the idea that Google will be adding weight to dofollow links that actually have traffic flowing through them is catching on.  Equally interesting is his advice to worry less about about pagerank sculpting and more about getting valuable content further up in the site hierarchy.  This seems logical - but on the other hand many of the most content heavy websites (like newspapers, article directories, etc.) have the majority of their current a few clicks deep.  So it seems not entirely clear how large, content sites can get pages further up the hierarchy - other than ensuring content pages aren't  too deep. That is it for this week - we'll see what next week holds