SEO Tips & Information

When a Wordpress blog is first installed and you start making posts, the URLs are not ideal for SEO. The URL for a new blog post will be something like www dot myblog dot com/p?id=3. For SEO purposes, it’s far better to have meaningful, human-readable URLs such as www dot myblog dot com/my-interesting-post.html.

To make Wordpress use SEO-friendly URLs you need to switch on permalinks with a custom structure. Wordpress will then use better URLs even for existing posts on the blog.

To set up a custom permalink structure, follow these steps:-

1. Log in as the adminstrator on your WordPress blog.
2. Go to the Dashboard, click on the Setting link on the right near the top of the screen.
3. Click on the Permalinks hyperlink.
4. Check the Custom Structure radio button.
5. Enter this value (without quotes) as the custom structure: “/%category%/%postname%/”.
6. Click the Save Changes button.

Your URLs should now be SEO-friendly and based on the post titles and category names.

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