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How to Change Upload URL into SEO Friendly Links

By A. Fatih Syuhud on September 26, 2009 in

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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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9 Responses

  1. Nyubi
    Nyubi September 26, 2009 at 2:07 am | Reply

    Hmmm… Trying to understand it (I’m totally newbie), but thx for this tutorial :)

  2. gultom
    gultom September 26, 2009 at 6:12 am | Reply

    thanks for sharing the material, i think its a good material for the first learner

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    blog buat bloggers September 26, 2009 at 6:44 am | Reply

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  4. Hendrawan
    Hendrawan September 26, 2009 at 1:56 pm | Reply

    Very nice info, thanks bro!!!

  5. Marshal
    Marshal September 26, 2009 at 7:36 pm | Reply

    Thanks for sharing the tutorial, will try to implement the method next time

  6. Marshal
    Marshal September 26, 2009 at 7:38 pm | Reply

    Strange I posted a comment, but it didn’t show up!

  7. Gosip Artis
    Gosip Artis September 27, 2009 at 5:33 pm | Reply

    I think this is new for me, Thanks for great tips

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    small bathroom designs October 6, 2009 at 11:25 am | Reply

    Nice info, it is totally new for newbie like me.

    Thanks for sharing

  9. Alwi
    Alwi October 6, 2009 at 3:07 pm | Reply

    Nice info thank … ya..

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