There are many people knew the fact that Google Search Engine love WordPress powered blog. However, they still don’t know how to do it in their WordPress blog. In this tutorials, I will demonstrate to you one simple trick can even make your blog more search engine friendlier – change your blog permalink structure.
The default blog permalink structure is look like below:
It is not search engine friendly url format and you need to change it. To change your blog permalink structure is easy, just follow the step below and you can instantly change your blog become search engine lovers.
Login to your WordPress Blog Admin Area > Option > Permalink
Select Custom > Enter the new custom permalink structure
Press Update Permalink Structure
Your new blog permalink structure will look like this:
That’s all, you are done.
Hey, Steven – I just tried this but my dashboard doesn’t even have a ‘permalink’ option.. Is that because I’m using a WordPress-hosted blog?
I’ve found ‘basic’ common-sense information about the difference between WordPress-hosted blogs and self-hosted WordPress blogs really hard to find.
As a relative newcomer, I’m looking to exploit the WordPress-hosted blog to the full; and some advice from experts like yourself as to whether I’m wasting my time and should host my own blog would be really helpful!
I guess what I mean is an ‘newcomer’s guide’ to the differences between both options and the limitations of the WordPress-hosted option?
Sam: This feature is for self-hosted wordpress blog only. I started with this and I never study wordpress-hosted (or I called it free-hosted) blog. In my opnion, self-hosted blog is definitely better than wordpress-hosted. While I still maintain that one and build an one way link back to my main blog.