Changing Wordpress Permalink for Better SEO

Posted by mmuurrllyy on

September 5, 2008

tips

Hi and vanakam to all. The default permalink for wordpress is something like this, example:

http://gmurali.com/?p=123 <– I’m not using this permalink anymore :)

Ask yourself does the link show you anything about your contents? Let me show few bloggers that have this style of permalink. See the red fonts, can you figure out what is the contents?

http://vickneswaran.com/?p=325<– this was his latest entry at the time I’m typing this piece

and

http://ragedindian.com/?p=236<– this  one also same as the above link

Now lets see the few types of permalink that wordpress bloggers use

http://www.makkez.com/2008/08/28/indian-reality-tv-girl-slaps-and-getting-slapped/

This permalink is good, at least you can know what is the contents about. But, Taragana Blog wrote there is no purpose for permalink to have dates. Please refer Taragana Blog for better explaination on Permalink.

By the way, I’m using slightly different from other blogs, I got it from John Chow’ s e-book. I hope you guys know who is John Chow. Get his e-book from his blog.

Let me tell you how I did it, go to Settings at your Wordpress Dashboard, then click the permalink which you see at your dashboard. Then at common settings, choose custom structure  then fill this:

/%postname%.html

at the blank space, don’t forget to click save changes at below part of  “Tag Base” before leave the page.

p/s: off course I’m not wordpress or SEO expert, but sharing is caring :P

p/s: these are the some of the blogs that I visit daily

  1. 13 Responses to “Changing Wordpress Permalink for Better SEO”

  2. Good Tips bro..for better SEO, you can also use All in One SEO Pack(http://semperfiwebdesign.com/);)

    By Saravanan07 on Sep 5, 2008

  3. thanks for the back link bro..i wish i can change my permalink too, but its giving me error as my site is hosted on windows server. informed my hosting company to change to linux server so that i can tweak around with the htaccess file. anyway, its a good piece of info shared. keep up the good wrk bro..

    By vickn3s on Sep 5, 2008

  4. Vanakam/Namaskaram bro.

    Well, I emphasized alot on SEO in my blog because a big portion of my traffic comes from search engines alone. That is why you could see some of my post’s title seems to be ‘readable’ as that contributes to alot of visitors coming into my blog by searching for some particular keywords that are related to my post’s title.

    I never bothered to remove the ‘date’ part as I believe, by showing the date, people would tend to know how new the post was made…. =D

    By Makkez on Sep 5, 2008

  5. u should try changing permission of the .htaccess file to 777 or 666

    By mmuurrllyy on Sep 5, 2008

  6. yes..dates can be usefull generally but not for SEO because crawlers will take more effort to crawl through your title and topic, eventually it will effect your rankings
    anyway..you can google on SEO, i got from some website but can’t recall back from where I got it

    By mmuurrllyy on Sep 5, 2008

  7. Bro, This thing I’ve known it quite earlier bro. The only things that stands like a block is once I have done the steps that you’ve suggested ; This things comes out :

    If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

    Obviously what it is asking is to locate the .htaccess file and put in the above code or am I mistaking the instruction?

    I can’t seem to locate the folder in control Panel bro.

    Need your expertise help bro.

    Nandri ayyah Nandri….:D

    By Durai on Sep 5, 2008

  8. ok..bro.i will try to help..u have to change the .htacces’s permission to 777 at chmod. U need to use FTP client to do that.
    CPanel also can, but very difficult to locate the file.

    i had experienced that before…then I used the FTP way..it was success.
    I hope you will try and tell me.

    cheers

    By mmuurrllyy on Sep 5, 2008

  9. yes, you are right… it really help.

    other then this, i suggest you can use all in 1 seo pack to enhance your SEO

    By iCalvyn on Sep 7, 2008

  10. im using the SEO pack…great tools, must have for bloggers

    By mmuurrllyy on Sep 7, 2008

  11. Bro, A bit blur.

    Can you explain a bit more on how to locate the file using cpanel?

    Sorry for bothering u…:D

    By Durai on Sep 12, 2008

  12. i will do tutorial for u la…at least other also will get some knowledge.ok va bro?

    By mmuurrllyy on Sep 12, 2008

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