Best Wordpress Permalink Structure

Published: 26th November 2009
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SEO Friendly Permalink Structure for Wordpress

Permalinks in WordPress are the URLs that you meet in your browser's address bar.These permalinks are very important factors of your blog's SEO, So this is Highly Recommended that you must make your Wordpress Permalinks SEO Friendly. Short URLs with less smother and more real words do well than those dynamically established and with a whole lot of unnecessary strings and numbers attached. The best advantage is that Search engines and human beings can read it very easily

By default, your WordPress Dashboard gives you a 3 choices to choose from. The default permalink structure is a terrible option from an SEO standpoint and the other two aren't bad, but they aren't your best option.
The best SEO Permalinks Value is to have your post appears with 'category' and the 'post title' in the URL.

A Best Example of It Is Here:
"http://yourdomain.com/category/post-title"

Now you have a question in your mind that why this is the best SEO Permalinks Value for Wordpress?

It's Simple!!

This Permalinks structure allows you to have 'more' keyword loaded into the URL of your post.

You can have Much SEO benifits if someone is using this Permalink Structure and linking you.
Now follow these Simple steps to make your Permalinks to the most SEO Value.

* Log in to your Wordpress Dashboard.
* Then Go to "OPTIONS -> Permalinks"
* Copy this piece of Code

/%category%/%postname%/

* And paste it in BOX after "Custom Structure"
* Click the "Update Permalinks Structure BUTTON.
NOTE:

If you got any Error saying .htaccess is not Writable or something just do these simple steps...

* Log into your FTP Client.
* Click on "public_html" or the Directory where you installed Wordpress.
* Find file named .htaccess
* Change its permission to 777 (Don't worry change it for only 1 minute)
* Come back to your Wordpress Dashboard.
* OPTIONS >>> Permalinks"
* Click the "Update Permalinks Structure BUTTON.

Now when it's done.
Change your .htaccess file permissions Back to 604 or whatever you feel Secure.


Now you have Successfully changed your Wordpress Permalinks Structure and Thisis now your Permalinks will be Fully SEO Optmized.

You can also have a at my Blog post that i have created for Wordpress Permalink SEO Structure

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