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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2 Comments on Setting up Wordpress for a Search Engine Friendly URL »
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.