Permalink Settings

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Hi,
How to you use Permalink Settings on your wordpress website ?
i notice my main website is mywebsite.com//%category%/%postname%/ but the other website is mywebsite/postname

What do you use and what is better for seo ?
What happen if I change the structure ? Url will change right ?
#search engine optimization #permalink #settings
  • I prefer using. ....com/sample-post. This is the best SEO friendly permalink structure.

    If you change permalink, all your post url will be changed.
  • I use:

    /%post_id%/%postname%/
    because it is much easier to give someone my url + id than telling them the postname with all the dashes
  • PS: postname is definitely great for SEO
  • What concern me is I just notice this yesterday and I want to change my main website to ...com/sample-post but is something I can do about changing the url ?
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    • Not Sure what you mean? If you are using latest wordpress version you can select /%postname%/ and all your posts urls will have the posts title used in the url.
      eg. if you change the setting of permalinks to /%postname%/ then the url will change from www.yourdomain.com/1 to www.yourdomain.com/your-posts-title

      This goes across all posts not just one, let me know if that is what you meant or not
      Scotty
  • It is not only the url. all my backlinks also
  • well.
    If I have url mydomain/categoryname/post name and change that to mydomain/postname then I´m changing the url right ?
    That mean if I have add baclklinks somewhere or what so ever my url is not the same any more ?
    This will also affect the search in Goggle right
  • I just tried changing my permalink to a Custom Structure to this /%postname%/
    & checked the box next to it & it keeps going back to /sample-post/

    Is it suppose to do this shouldn't the box that says Custom Structure stay
    checked instead of Post name.
  • I think
    /%postname%/ is better for SEO.

    Thanks
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    • I don`t know about Permalink. Could you tell me that what advantages are there from Permalink?
  • What is the advantages of Permalink?
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    Hi, How to you use Permalink Settings on your wordpress website ? i notice my main website is mywebsite.com//%category%/%postname%/ but the other website is mywebsite/postname