Hello Friends,

Searching Best permalink structure for wordpress! So, I guess, you already know about wordpress permalinks. Permalinks produced in wordpress by default are not good for search engine indexing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). We need to change them with effective ones.

(By the way, some people may not know these permalink things. But don’t worry, I have elaborated whole story in the this article, so keep reading).

Best Permalink For Wordpress:

According to me, best permalink structure is:

www.yourdomain.com/category-name/post-name/

I have some reasons to support this permalink. First of all, it solves most basic purpose of changing original permalink. It does not contain any dynamic part like “www.yourdomain.com/blog/?p=38“. So, problem of search engine indexing is completely resolved.

Another purpose of this permalink is that it contains both category name as well as post name. Most of the times, category name is very good keyword. When that keyword is included in your URL it becomes more valuable.

More About Permalinks:

Permalink is URL pointing to individual blog post. In wordpress we can have different permalink options. We can choose one as per our need.

1. www.yourdomain.com/category-name/post-name/
2. www.yourdomain.com/post-name/
3. www.yourdomain.com/year/month/post-name/
4. www.yourdomain.com/year/date/month/post-name/
5. www.yourdomain.com/archive/post-number/

How to Change Wordpress Permalink:

First thing, please change your permalink when blog is new.  Now one may think that since long, my blog is online and I want to change permalinks now, what should I do? If you have decided to change permalinks anyway, go for it. This may hamper your growth for some time but can become even more beneficial in long term. For changing permalink follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your blog wordpress dashboard.
2. Go to Settings->Permalinks.
3. Now you can see 4 Radio buttons denoting 4 permalink options. By default 1st is selected. By using radio button you can change your permalinks to “Day and Name”, “Month and Name”, “Numeric”.
4. To change permalink to www.yourdomain.com/category/post-name/ click on last radio button indicating custom structure. Paste the below given code in the field provided.

/%category%/%postname%/

5. To change permalink to www.yourdomain.com/post-name/ . Paste the below given code in the field provided at custom structure.

/%postname%/

6. Some people don’t like all permalinks discussed above. They want .html permalink for wordpress blog. But guys, Wordpress Rocks! We have that provision too. For that one can use following codes.

/%category%/%postname%.html (or .htm)
/%postname%.html (or .htm)

While doing all above things, you may need .htaccess file information. So please refer instructions about .htaccess.

So, you made through!!!

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Kiran Pagar.

Welcome to BloggerLine.com.

I am really excited to start up BloggerLine. This is my 2nd project, after Engiblogger. Unlike engiblogger, which is totally dedicated to technical things, here I have chance to widen and improve my writing quality. As name says, BloggerLine covers Blogging and all aspects about it. Here, I will discuss Blog Basics, SEO, Moneymaking online, blog marketing etc. I committed to give you best I have about the subject.

Thank You.

Kiran P. Pagar