How to Change Upload URL into SEO Friendly Links

Posted on September 26, 2009

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Whatever (files, images or videos) you’ve uploaded s into a self-hosted wordpress, the link path into those files is not pretty. It’ll look like this (in my case): http://fatihsyuhud.com/wp-content/uploads/year/month/image.jpg

From esthetical and SEO perspective, this kind of link is not good. The good one should be like this: http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/images.jpg or http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/video.avi or http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/cpns_deplu.pdf, etc

Fortunately, you can easily change that not-SEO friendly link into the one which is not only pretty but also would help you optimize it in the search result pages.

Here’s how:

1. After login, click SETTING -> MiSCELLANEOUS.

2. In the “Store uploads in this folder” -> delete “wp-content/uploads” and change it into “downloads”

3. Unchecked the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”

4. Click -> Save Changes. Done.

Now you have a pretty uploaded URL path. Your uploaded file from now on will look like: http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/files.pdf, etc..

See the live demo here. (look at the link path URL)

Notes:

1. You may change the word “downloads” into whatever names you want. Wordpress.com uses “files” instead of “downloads”.

2. If you’ve uploaded some images before this change, don’t worry. The previous url address will not change. It will change only the future uploaded links.

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