Optimize WordPress Permalink Structure

Author: Usman Khan

Have you made your blog or website and you are going to do SEO to increase the visitors of your pages? If you use WordPress, there are many tools (which I have already spoken) that allow you to index the contents of the blog and therefore increase traffic inbound. But from the beginning. It 'a good idea to start indexing SEO setting and configuring the most of the permalink of the site, which are an extremely important resource. But what are these permalinks? Essentially it is of URLs that refer to information (pages and posts in general) specifications and are made in such a way as to remain unchanged over time, so it is very important to choose a basic structure that is "well seen" by search engines and allows easy orientation for the visitor. Clarified the concept of link's permanent, let's see how we can optimize your permalink structure on wordpress.

Optimize permalink site on wordpress to improve SEO

I can assure you that is the worst choice you can make. If you notice the structure, you'll notice the presence of some numbers that identify the post, but in optical SEO have no value to the user and have little meaning. But what is the ideal structure to be assigned to our permalink? Definitely the best choice we can make is that of compounds permalink URL of the site plus the full name of the post: Same for categories, tags and all URLs on our site. As you can see, the new structure contains the full name of the post and this greatly facilitates navigation both for visitors that search engine. But where we can edit Permalink? Simple, because this kind of operation can be run directly from the control panel of WordPress.

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Remember that once the permalink structure will be changed, change the URLs of content, so if your site was already well indexed and positioned there is the possibility of losing all the work done up to that point. My advice is to redirect the "older posts" to "new post", so as to avoid possible errors 404. How can we do it? We can modify the.Htaccess file, but if we have little experience about we can use a simple plugin to create redirects on WordPress. Another help for this issue, is also provided by other plugins used for indexing SEO. If you remember, I showed you some of these tools as: configure the plugin WordPress SEO By Yoast, configure the plugin All in One