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How to change permalinks to seo friendly URL in wordpress
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Many people use wordpress as an option to run their website. As it is free and do not require any coding knowledge. However, customizing wordpress require lot more than coding knowledge. It require you to know the internal inbuild components of wordpress like wp-comment, wp-options etc.
When you install wordpress on your server for your site say example.com, by default the link structure it use is find of very unfriendly in terms of SEO and readability. For example, it will look like http://example.com/?p=10, so while just looking at the URL you cannot think of what the webpage might have on it. Same goes with search engine. So, it is important that you make your URL structure SEO friendly in WordPress
So, how do you change the URL structure to SEO friendly, which means from example.com/?p=20 to example.com/dogs/dog-meal which is understandable by search engine.
For this follow this simple steps.
1. Login to your wordpress blog usind the path http://example.com/wp-admin, enter your username and password that you might have set when you were installing wordpress on your server.
2. After you logged in, you will land of dashboard, scroll down of the dashboard, on the left side pane, you will see an option called as permalinks under the option Settings.
3. Click on permalinks, you will find a place where it says custom permalinks.Just write /%category%/%postname%/ in the field and save it.
4. And yes, we are done with customizing the wordpress URL to make it SEO friendly.
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