How to change the permalink structure of your blog

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In this post I will talk about changing the permalink structure on your blog. It is very easy to do and it will be good for search engines to crawl your new blog. By default WordPress likes to have the structure like this http://www.gregellison.net/?p=123. This is very confusing for the search engines and not very good for SEO or (Search Engine optimization). A permalink is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives.

In WordPress 2.5 or higher go to Settings then to Permalinks. Once in the Permalinks section you can click on the custom radial circle, and type the following /%category%/%postname%/. What this will do is show the links of your posts as category/postname. You can also do /%postname%/%day%/. You have to find what works for you, but don’t have it default like the example I showed you above.

You also don’t want to conitnually change the permalink structure because google has probably crawled your site with the first way and once you do that your vistiors will get 404 pages on your blog because it is pointing to the old way. If you change the permalink structure stick with it to the end.

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August 8, 2008 | Filed Under Blog