If you want different setup use the variables on WordPress Permalinks settings page to build your desired URL structure and tick the. it will give your pages small boost in the major search engines as long as you use relevant keywords to your content in your blog post titles.. This means if your WordPress URL's currently look like www example com p=1 and you make the permalinks change advised above Google will know www example com p=1 goes to one of the new page URL's and your site will work when people come to your site from either type of link. This means you can make this change if your site is years old and since 301 redirected pages are not penalised in anyway Google your old search engine rankings and backlinks will transfer to the new page URL's.. Note 2 WordPress SEO Tutorial you reading now used to be on another domain, I managed to get the domain penalized Google I added footer link from Talian WordPress SEO to the old site this WordPress SEO tutorial was on.. WordPress works in way that it reads URL with the format www example com %postname% by looking for WordPress Pages first because they have the same structure. If you have WordPress with lot of static Pages having permalink structure like www example com %postname% for your blog Posts can slow down WordPress generating blog Post link URL under some scenarios when visitor accesses your site .. Note the above is no valid, ation here for those who find the above advise on other websites and think newer versions of WordPress you should add ID into URL structure.. The benefit of this is all the Categories of this WordPress blog will now have small boost for search results related to Topics without having to even use the word topics in the content. only do this for new WordPress installations since WordPress does NOT redirect the Category URLs to the new like it does for Post permalink settings.
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