Blogs and websites must always be optimized for the search engines as that is the sole purpose of having it online. Only that can give you more visitors, more publicity and more reach among people. here is a quick tip on how to make your wordpress blogs that are self hosted.

By default the Wordpress url would be something like:

www.domain.com/?p=123
You will have to make it SEO friendly. Having numbers padding up would make no real sense for the search engines.This is a no brainer.

You can make it SEO friendly, i.e look like

http://www.domain.com/postname.html

or

http://www.domain.com/category/postname.html

Both are SEO friendly and have their usage.

The former is widely used one as it keeps the structure simple. The latter can be used in blogs that rely heavily on categories. Also, some wordpress themes are made such that they only display a certain number of posts from each category on the home page. In such cases, it is a must to have the latter type with category in it.

To implement this url permalink structure chage:

goto Settings -> Permalinks in your Wordpress dashboard.

Select custom structure and type either of these.

/%category%/%postname%/

/%postname%/

and Save it. You are done optimizing your wordpress site url.

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