Setting up Wordpress for a Search Engine Friendly URL

This guide is for all the Wordpress die hards out there. Who wanted to have a search engine friendly URLs on their wordpress blog. by default wordpress uses hyphenated url (e.g http://seoroot.com/blog/?cat=seo) which is known to be unfriendly for search engine bots (i believe that was a decade ago). anyway, heres how to set it up.

1. Login to your wordpress admin account.

2. Click on the options tab/link, then click on permalinks.

3. Click on “Custom Specify Below”, then enter “/%category%/%postname%/” (without the quotes).

4. Finally, click o “Update permalink structure” button.

Thats it and you are set. You should have this kind link structure now (e.g http://seoroot.com/blog/category/technology/security/surveillance-cameras/)

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nevermind @ 10:35 am:

Thank you so much for sharing that valuable idea batman. I have tried to change my permalinks in that way before but I didn’t know how. My permalinks structure are now modified. check my site. hehehehe.

nevermind @ 10:56 am:

oopppss..I changed it back again to default. I guess something is wrong with my host. When I changed my permalink structure to the customized type, pages cannot be found.

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