SEO With Wordpress Permalink

By default, Wordpress Permalink structure looks like this http://missylicious.com/blog/?p=123. The 123 is the post ID for your blog. However, this makes no sense to the search engine. Who will google 123?

To make your post more friendly towards search engine, change the Permalink structure to “Date and Name Based”. This can be found under your Admin Wordpress Panel->Options->Permalinks.

Some might find adding date to the URL senseless. What you can do is to choose “Custom, Specify Below” (instead of “Date and Name Based”) and type “/%postname%/”. From now on the URL of your permalinks will be closely related to your title. This will allow search engines to index your pages efficiently.

The last step is to locate the .htaccess file in the root directory of your blog and update it.

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