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#505: Make Your WordPress Permalinks SEO-Friendly

Posted: May 27, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 94 views // View Comments
Make Your WordPress Permalinks SEO-Friendly
Quick tips to help you make your Wordpress permalink structure more SEO-friendly.

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, as well as categories and archives listings.

Basically, permalinks is just a fancy word for the URL that get’s created when you make a post on your WordPress blog. By default, WordPress permalinks are not very SEO-friendly.

WordPress permalinks are dynamic and are formatted like any common PHP-based site. That is, with page and post ID’s rather than actual keywords. Although your site will still index, from an SEO-perspective it is much better to try to find a way to get keywords in the URL.

So how do I change…

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