Changing WordPress Permalinks Permalinks For Your Site

What are permalinks? Permalinks are the specific URLs on the end of your domain name which direct each user to a specific page or post.

By default, WordPress gives you this dynamic URL for a post: “http://www.yourdomain.com/?p=some-id-number”. The best SEO permalink structure is to have your post appears with ‘category’ and the ‘post title’ in the URL.

What we want is a permalink structure in our URL to look like this:

http://yourdomain.com/category/post-title

Here’s what you want to copy and past into your custom permalinks box to achieve this type of URL:

/%category%/%postname%/

… And Viola!

Originally, the URL for this post was “http://www.savwire.com/?p=10”

Not so pretty, and not so good for SEO.

Now, after modifying my permalinks, I have a nice URL of “http://www.savwire.com/changing-wordpress-permalinks-for-your-site”

This makes it a lot easier for Google and other search engine crawlers to find and index your post.