Making wordpress blog URL search engine friendly
Making your wordpress blog URL search engine friendly is a must if you want to drive more traffic to your wordpress blog, why? the answer is very simple clean blog URL’s help crawlers or spiders to crawl your site easily thus helping your page to get indexed easily. after some intensive research i found these pointers in choosing the best url for wordpress blogs.
Pointers for choosing Wordpress blog URL from Worst to BEST!
http://yourblog.com/?p=123http://yourblog.com/index.php?id=123http://yourblog.com/2008/10/20/sample-post/http://yourblog.com/post/article/sample-posthttp://yourblog.com/post/article/123http://yourblog.com/post/article/sample-post.htmlhttp://yourblog.com/sample-post
If you been to my blog before you’ll notice that i changed my blog URLs 4 times from
Default settings - http://danieldumas.com/?p=123 to
Month and Name - http://danieldumas.com/2008/10/20/sample-post/ to
Custom - http://danieldumas/article/sample-post.html and now finally to
Custom - http://danieldumas/sample-post
Making your wordpress blog URL search engine frienldly is very easy using permalinks features, here is a step by step procedure..
Step 1:
Log-in to your wordpress blog and go to customize permalink options. Dashboard > Options > Permalinks
Step 2:
Select Custom Structure from the options, then type /%postname%
Step 3:
you dont want to lose traffic when you change your permalinks structure do you? download Permalink Migration Plugin what this plugin do is it applies a 301 redirect or permanent redirect to your old url so that whenever someone access your site with your old url, that someone will be redirected to the new url, it is also a great way to tell search engines that you have change your URL structure so that when they crawl your site again search engines will update your links in their index.
and that’s it! your wordpress blog url is now search engine friendly and optimized!
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October 20th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Permalink is one of the most important factors in SEO
Great tip.
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Daniel Dumas (79 comments.) Reply:
October 20th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
yep uu nga eh kaya puro ako palit ng permalinks pang apat na
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malcolm coles (1 comments.) Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 8:18 am
URLs aren’t that important for search engines. For humans, yes. But SEs don’t pay much attention to URL structure.
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October 21st, 2008 at 6:00 am
Wow..ayos! gusto kung yung’ custom structure…I like it doing my way…wahehehe……
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Daniel Dumas (79 comments.) Reply:
October 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
hehe yep ako din custom din nakailang palit ako hihi
ito na ang huling palit ko 
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October 29th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Thanks your message has very much helped me:)
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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November 18th, 2008 at 1:09 am
The message is awesome!
Very informative! Thank you
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November 20th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
In my case, I am using Deans Permalink Structure to change my blogsite URL. Clean URL helps your blog site to be more search engine friendly…
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January 19th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
In my case, I am using Deans Permalink Structure to change my blogsite URL. Clean URL helps your blog site to be more search engine friendly…
nice blog
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Dimple
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February 4th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I’m always surprised at how many blogs I see that still use the default url path. I don’t know if it’s because people don’t realize they can and should change it or because they don’t know how.
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