WordPress: The Search Engine Advantage

July 2nd, 2008

By default WordPress gives you the ability to choose if you want Search Engine Friendly URLS for your blog, but I’ve taken that a step further. You will only be able to follow the instructions I’m giving below if you already have WordPress installed.

If you have WordPress installed add this line of code to your “Permalinks” section:

/%postname%.htm

Input the above code into the line that says “Custom Structure” and ensure that you have the check placed in the “Custom, specify below” under Common Options. What this does is give your blog highly optimizable search engine friendly URLS. Every blog post you make will have a keyword rich URL based on the subject of your blog.

For example if your blog post was:

“Caribbean Recipes” your URL would be http://yoursite.com/caribbean-recipes.html

It’s a nice handy trick to get more search engine friendly URLS out of WordPress to ensure that your keywords appear not only in the subject but also in the page URL.

To download "Blogging or Profits", click here

Tags: blog, blogging, wordpress, permalinks, serach+engine+friendly+url