1. Creating SEO-friendly Permalinks
For WordPress Blog
-By Amy Brown
WordPress Developer
At WordPrax Ltd.

2. What Do We Mean By
Permalinks
Permalinks are permanent URLs of the content
that you publish on individual blog postings.
They play an important role in making
WordPress blogs search engine friendly.

3. Importance of
Permalinks
When it comes to indexing webpages of a site,
search engines such as Google and others
give high priority to website permalinks.
And thus, having SEO-friendly permalink
structure in your WordPress blog can help
you attain good position in SERPs (earch
engine results pages).

4. WordPress Permalink
Structure
By default, the WordPress permalink structure
looks something like:
http://yourdomain.com/?p=123.
But the default URL is not SEO-friendly.
Thankfully, there are built-in WordPress tools
that help in making the permalink structure of
blog posts search engine friendly.

5. How to Make Permalink of
WordPress Blog SEO-Friendly?
You can make your blog permalink SEO-friendly, by
simply following a few steps:
Step 1: Login into your WordPress administration panel.
Step 2: From your website admin dashboard screen click
on Settings -> Permalinks. This will open up the
Permalink Option Page.

6. How to Make Permalink of
WordPress Blog SEO-Friendly?
Step 3: Now, from the “Permalink Option Page”,
click on the last option: Custom Structure:

7. How to Make Permalink of
WordPress Blog SEO-
Friendly?

8. How to Make Permalink of
WordPress Blog SEO-Friendly?
Step 4: There are different ways using which you can
organize your blog posts URL structure. WordPress
provides several options as you would have seen in
the image used in the previous slide. However, it is
recommended that you should choose the following
URL structure:
/%category%/%postname%/

9. How to Make Permalink of
WordPress Blog SEO-Friendly?
You can make your blog URL structure even more SEO-friendly,
by adding keyword of the category and title to it:
http://www.yourdomain.com/tutorials/how-to-make-WordPress-blog-SEO-friendly/
There are many other URL structure combinations available that
can be used organize your blog URLs. Some of those
combinations are:
●
%year% – enter the year in which your post was written.
●
%monthnum% – the month of the year will come here.

10. How to Make Permalink of
WordPress Blog SEO-
Friendly?
Once you have selected any one of the previously
discussed URL structure combination for your
WordPress blog post, simply paste that option in the
“Custom Structure” field in the Permalink Option
Page. And click on the “Save” button.
If you still can't understand the process of creating
search engine friendly blogs, you can employ
custom WordPress development services of a
recognized web development company.

11. Conclusion
So, that's it! Hope you would have understood
the basic process of making WordPress blog
posts permalink structure SEO-friendly.
Thank You!!!
For More Details Contact Us At:
“www.wordprax.com“