PepperStation blog » blog http://blog.pepperstation.com Power up your website Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 “Almost Pretty” permalinks for your WordPress blog http://blog.pepperstation.com/index.php/2009/08/almost-pretty-permalinks-for-your-wordpress-blog/ http://blog.pepperstation.com/index.php/2009/08/almost-pretty-permalinks-for-your-wordpress-blog/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:06:05 +0000 Steve http://blog.pepperstation.com/?p=193 Permalinks are the links you can share with others and the search engines for your blog posts.  From a search engine performance point of view, links to your site or blog that contain keywords relevant to your page’s content, will boost the ranking performance of that page with the search engines.  By default WordPress uses [...read more]]]> Permalinks are the links you can share with others and the search engines for your blog posts.  From a search engine performance point of view, links to your site or blog that contain keywords relevant to your page’s content, will boost the ranking performance of that page with the search engines.  By default WordPress uses “ugly” permalinks which look something like: http://example.com/?p=N

These links while functional, do not have an added benefit of loading your link with keywords for viewer and search engine consumption.  The preferred permalink is the “Pretty” or “Almost Pretty” variety which allow you to create and share links with keywords in them and look like this: http://example.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/

Read more about permalinks on the wordpress site at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

To create links for your blog containing keywords, log onto your WordPress admin and goto settings->permalinks.  Select a common link structure that you wold like to use and then modify it by adding /index.php to the beginning in the ‘custom structure’ field.  You will have a link structure that looks like: /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

That’s it, you are good to go and now have links that contain great keywords for your blog post.

Happy blogging -

Steve

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Need help customizing your blog space? Check out our design options, I think you’ll find what your looking for.

Thanks! Steve

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Need help customizing your blog space? Check out our design options, I think you’ll find what your looking for.

Thanks!
Steve

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We’ll make sure your blog is always available, up-to-date and take care of backing everything up. [...read more]]]> A few weeks back, we added blogs to our hosting menu. We now support turnkey setup and hosting of WordPress blogs. We use WordPress for our blog and think it’s a great product and a recognized leader in blogging software.

We’ll make sure your blog is always available, up-to-date and take care of backing everything up. You sign up, we set you up. It’s that simple.

Happy blogging!

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