When setting up a Wordpress blog set up the permalinks right!

When you first set up a wordpress blog you may not know ANYTHING about how to do it. Then little by little you will figure it out and find out that wordpress is pretty simple to use. So you get your template set up and you start posting content.

One thing you do not need to forget to set up is the permalink settings. You probably did not even know about this and this may be the first time you have heard about it. The permalinks are the link styles you can set up for the URL’s in the top of the internet browsers.

From default wordpress will just use numbers for the post. It will be something like yourwebsite.com/?post=3

This means that your posts title will NOT appear in the link. It is best for the post title to appear in the link as you can get more keywords into the search engines with it this way. It is real easy to change. Go to your Admin control panel and hit Settings and then hit Permalinks.

Now go the bottom and check the bubble beside “Custom” and put this in the custom blank “/%postname%/”. Do not use the ” ” just /%postname%/. Now you are set up and ready to go. It is better to do this as soon as you set up your blog but it can be done at any time. All the links coming to your old url’s will just redirect and work fine.