Making Word Press Search Engine Friendly
April 19, 2007 · Print This Article
Word Press is one of the most if not THE most popular self installed self hosted blog software on the internet today. One of the reasons for its popularity includes the fact that its completely free, flexible, professionally coded and it has a lot of support communities behind it.There are some things you can improve in your Word Press powered blog, especially on the search engine optimisation front. Search Engine Optimisation consultant Bagi Zoltán of Directory of SEO Links in the article below gives you some of the top tips for making you Word Press blogs search engine friendly.
I observed that search engines don’t recognise keywords in the URLs, unless they are separated with hyphen, full stop or plus sign.
After installing your Word Press blog software, URLs create by default will contain question mark and an identification number of your post. Why not exploit the advantages of the keyword rich URLs and make your blog search engine friendly right away by replacing the URLs with question marks and identification number with keyword rich urls. All you need to do is as follows:
i. Login to you Word Press admin control panel, at the Permalinks submenu, you will see the available Permalinks options, select custom options. Next to the Custom, specify below text and fill it with this value: /keyphrase-separated-with-hypens/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Optionally you may want to remove the date of posting to shorten the URLs, and if you want your other important keyphrases -set as categories that would group your posts and- will be shown in the URLs, set this one. /keyphrase-separated-with-hypens/%category%/%postname%/When you publish a new post and your selected permalink structure is not the default or the numeric based, the script will automatically set the title of your post into the URL (separated with hypens). If you would like to see something different Word Press offers you the opportunity to customize the URL filling out the Post Slug input form.
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