SEO friendly URLS on Word Press Published on January 12, 2010
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How to make “URL Rewrite style” SEO friendly URLS on Word Press
It’s very simple, though not very well documented. I’ll keep it short and objective, it will only take you 2 minutes to do it, and it will do a lot to your website SEO potential.
By default when we write a new post “about about wp seo”, your URL should roughly look like:
www.yourblog.com /?p=00
Well this is not the friendliest URL, both to Search Engines as to Humans
It would be much easier if you could actually see (read) and understand where that URL will take you, like this for instance:
www.yourblog.com /a-page-about-wp-seo
This is easy to understand. You know you will be redirected to an article regarding WP and SEO. Humans like it, Search Engines like it better…
Convinced? Let’s do it:
Go to you website’s admin panel (wp-admin)
On le left-hand side menu, choose: Settings -> Permalinks
Under Common settings, check “Custom Structure” and add this tag:
%postname%
On the bottom of the page, just click the button “Save Changes” and that’s it!
Remember that if your Word Press installation is in a different language then English, menus should have different, but similar names, but will be precisely in the same positions and exactly with the same use. However variations between Word press versions may (and will) occur.
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Thanks for the very cool information