Wordpress Blog SEO - 1 Minute Easy Quick Fix
Wordpress is one of the most powerful blog. It’s one of your traffic generation machine. You can easily fix your Wordpress blog to be much more appealing to search engine robots (Internet marketing SEO friendy) using this simple fix.
But before that, let’s understand about Wordpress blog link structure.
Permalinks
Permalinks is the format of your Wordpress blog post links. Every time you publish a blog post, your post will be published based on this permalinks. By default it’s structure is yourdomainname.com/?p=123. Unfortunately this default permalinks is not SEO friendly because search engine robots can read it.
For SEO, you must change your permalinks into something that search engine robots can read.
Go to your Wordpress dashboard. Click on Options then Permalinks. Then choose Custom and specify it as /%postname%/, and finally click Update Permalinks Structure.
There you go, now your permalinks mimics your post title. For example this blog post has URL of http://aldianprakoso.com/wordpress-blog-seo-1-minute-easy-quick-fix.
Here’s the quick step-by-step video:
Now your task is to make your blog post title SEO by using your targeted keywords in your blog post title. This secret SEO tool will make your blog attracting search engine robots and dominating your competitors!
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Comment by Sunny Rivers on 31 August 2007:
I really appreciated your easy explanation and instructions on the SEO quick fix for permalinks. I have bookmarked your site, and will be coming back for more information.
Sunny Rivers
Comment by Aldian on 7 September 2007:
Thanks for the visit and comment, Sunny River. I’m glad you find it useful
Comment by Evil on 8 September 2007:
This should be one of the first things that you do whenever you’re setting up your new blog.
Probably next most important thing would be to get the wordpress ID number and pop it into Akismet.
I’ve been getting tons, and TONS of spam links from some guy promoting car dealerships. Akismet has caught all of it.
Comment by Aldian on 11 September 2007:
Definitely Evil.
I use Peter’s Custom Anti-spam (captcha plugin), Bad Behavior and Spam Karma in addition to Askimet. They help reducing spams
Comment by James - Visualized.Feel.Abundance on 11 September 2007:
Hey Aldian,
I added a post count between the domain name and post name. Gives a post uniqueness and your post title can be repeated if ever required
Cheers
James
Comment by Zvi on 12 September 2007:
I made the change and I get a 404 page not found.
When I applied the change, there was a message saying “You should update your .htaccess now.”
suggestions?
Thanks
Comment by Aldian on 12 September 2007:
Hey James,
That’s a great idea, too! We can make series of post title that way.
Hi Zvi,
Which version of Wordpress are you using?
Also, where did the message appear? Was it at the Wordpress permalinks dashboard?
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Comment by Ben Holmes on 11 October 2007:
Zvi - by changing in ‘midstream’, you’ve got links on Google that are now pointing to none-existent pages. There’s fixes for this, try this one: http://www.deanlee.cn/?p=111&cp=9
Setting up permalinks is best done at the beginning! I’m also a fan of using keyword categories as part of the permalink, and post id to speed access and prevent duplicate names.
Comment by Aldian on 11 October 2007:
Hey Ben,
That’s a great plugin. Thanks for letting us know.
I agree with you, changing permalinks is best done right after installing the blog.
Comment by World Cup Soccer Poster on 18 January 2008:
Thanks. I’m going to try some plug-ins right now.
Comment by Gregg Thurby on 5 April 2008:
Aldian, Hi
This is a great tip - I’d already done this myself just after setting up my blog.
Another simple tip which I only realised after I’d posted several times (Duh!) was that Adsense matches it’s ads to the title of your posting, so make the title fairly specific, otherwise the ads are general and therefore not likely to get clicked…
Great site by the way!
Cheers,
Gregg Thurby
Comment by Tanning Guru on 15 May 2008:
Right after you update/change your Permalink structure in Wordpress go get the Permalink Redirect plugin - this plugin with further optimize your URL structure by eliminating the possibility of duplicate content being indexed from multiple variations of the same URL. This plugin also takes care of the canonical redirect for you.
Comment by richard baxter on 12 July 2008:
Nice post, thanks for the tip!
Comment by povor on 19 September 2008:
just did. Now I have the address changed, as have the search engine?
Comment by seo on 23 September 2008:
permalink structure and cleaning up is the best 1st thing to do to SEO your blog. Good post. very informative. I like how you presented it.