Oct 18, 2007
Improve WordPress SEO in 1 minute
G’day all,
Ok, just want to help out those who want to improve the results of Google searches of their site’s WordPress posts. This will take just 1 minute and is real easy to apply. (Even my mum can do this)
To start off, login to your WordPress backend:
- Login to your WP backend
- Click on “Options”
- Click on “Permalinks”
- Select the 2nd radio button (i.e Date and name based) or choose to go custom with (1) /%category%/%postname%/ or just (2) /%postname%/
- Click on “Update Permalink Structure”
- Done! =)
I’ve also made a video on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVeOol487U
Enjoy!
Tip: You can find all video tutorials on this link
6 Comments, Comment or Ping
Alvin Huang
Personally I prefer to use “Custom specify below” and use /%postname%/
After all there seems to be no use for having the date as dir folders. And this version does much better for SEO purposes. Or so I have tested.
Regards,
Alvin Huang
Oct 22nd, 2007
Kelvin Chan
Hi Alvin,
You’re absolutely right about that! To be more precise, the current option is the best out of the default ones (not including custom types).
I’ll be making a change to my permalink structure shortly to /%postname%/ as well.
For those who really want to understand more on these permalink structures, do check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Cheers! =)
P.S Appreciate your input Alvin.
Oct 22nd, 2007
Alvin Huang
No problem Kelvin. We all constantly learn and help each other. That’s all we all improve. =)
Regards,
Alvin Huang
Oct 23rd, 2007
mrloo
Thnx for the info, I did it too! Let’s see what happens.
Kelvin do you mind if you take a look at my blog and advice what can I do more to optimize it and get it ranked?
thnx. loo
Dec 9th, 2007
Blogadeur
Hi, I need your expert opinion on how to get the most out of Google Adsense. My PPC revenue is deteriorating this past few weeks. And even I have 50 email readers and almost 200 uniques visitors a day, it’s not even ranked.
I hope you can help me.
Thanks.
Dec 9th, 2007
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