Making wordpress blog URL search engine friendly

Making wordpress blog URL search engine friendly

Posted by Daniel at 5:02 pm

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=123
• http://yourblog.com/index.php?id=123
• http://yourblog.com/2008/10/20/sample-post/
• http://yourblog.com/post/article/sample-post
• http://yourblog.com/post/article/123
• http://yourblog.com/post/article/sample-post.html
• http://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!