SEO Friendly Permalinks

I know there is a plugin to optimise Wordpress title to be SEO friendly but I prefer to tweak it myself.

After all, it’s a small matter of editing and swapping two words in the header.php file.

1. Go into the Wordpress admin. Choose Options -> Permalinks.
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2. Choose the Custom option and type : /%postname%/
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Noticed that I got rid of the date month and year. Since my posts here will be tips, I think the dates as part of the article URL is just not needed. Shorter URLs are more search engine friendly (in my humble opinon)
SEO Friendly Page Titles

Here’s how most templates will display the title of a blog post.

It’s in the format of blog title >> post title.

In order to be search engine friendly, the title of the article should be first. So we just need to swap the two items.

1. In Wordpress admin, choose Presentation->Template and edit the header.php file.
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2. Look for the following line:
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3. Change that to:

:

Like so:
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I’ve added the colon (:) to separate the blog title from the post title.

The result:-

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