How to create a SEO friendly URL in wordpress blog?

Hi,

Which plugin should I install to get a seo friendly URL?

 

you do not need any plugin, or maybe you can use sitemaps.
To create SEO friendly url just change Options,Permalinks, Custom structure:, and add here what you need, for example /%postname% can be in most cases best

 

Thanks homfuc,

Yes I tried that before, but the problem is, it come out an error message of page 404 Not Found.....

 

Yes, This happens sometimes randomly, Try to change it back to a normal setting, then change it back to custom setting again. Sometimes it fixes it

 

Go to the menu Options > Permalinks

Select the field Custom, Specify below

Paste your permalink structure there, and click the button on the bottom of the page called Update Permalink Structure.

permalink structure could be:

%year% - The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004
%monthnum% - Month of the year, for example 05
%day% - Day of the month, for example 28
%hour% - Hour of the day, for example 15
%minute% - Minute of the hour, for example 43
%second% - Second of the minute, for example 33
%postname% - A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So "This Is A Great Post!" becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI
%post_id% - The unique ID # of the post, for example 423

%category% - A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI.

%author% - A sanitized version of the author name.

It will give you a small .htaccess code in the text field at the bottom, copy that code and paste it in your .htaccess file for your blog

 

Hi pachecus,

Where do I find the code? I can't find anything.

 

First you should use permalink structure contain %postname%. Do as pachecus's instruction
Then change title tags display the name of your post first, the blog title then.

 

i must say.. that wordpress is really a good script if not the best one for SEO that you can ge for free ! u don't need to do anything just start to post :> + sitemap yes... but does the new version of wordpress do the sitemap automaticly ? or am i wrong ?

 

Hi,

I give up, where do I make the mistake? Is still didn't work. The URL of my blog is www.moneysearch4u.com/online-casino-blog/

Can anyone shed me some light?

Thanks

 

It seems that you do not have the .htaccess file. Are you using apache?

 

do not forget , do not duplicate ani content, wpress is very bad for this. Try to disable all duplicate contents on different urls

 

Option1
Go to your wordpress admin.
Go to permalink settings
Select the setting you want (%category%/%postname% etc)
Once you save the setting, scroll down to the bottom of the page (I mean the permalink setting page)

You will see the .htaccess code there. Copy that code and paste into your .htaccess file. Save it and upload.

If you still can't find the .htaccess file code. You can use the following.

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# END WordPress

Code (markup):

Option 2
Another option is to make your .htaccess file writable. Use your ftp program or file manager and chmod the .htaccess file to 775 (some servers need 777 )

Now go to your wordpress admin and set the permalinks. Once you save this wordpress will automatically write the required code on your .htaccess file.

Hope this helps.

-Neo

 

by putting your targeted keywords in the post URL.

 

Theres an SEO plugin for wordpress thats called All-in-one SEO, give that a try