How to Create Wordpress Pretty Permalink

By default, permalink in self-hosted wordpress is ugly and more important, not SEO friendly. It looks like http://fatihsyuhud.com/?p=22. The pretty permalink will look like this: http://fatihsyuhud.com/year/month/day/post-name. To transform the ugly one into a pretty permalink you need a little work-out. Fortunately an easy one as follows:

1. Create a notepad blank file. Name it 1.htaccess
2. Upload it into your main directory in the control panel usually in folder ../public_html/(upload file here). Using FTP is a lot better. If you still don’t have FTP, download Filezilla for free here.
3. Rename the file already uploaded into .htaccess. (If using FTP you just need to right click -> rename -> .htacess
4. Change the attribute of the file (again using FTP) by right-click -> File attributes -> make it 666 -> OK.
5. Now, login to your self-hosted wordpress admin.
6. Click Setting -> Permalinks -> Day and Name -> check it.
7. Save changes. Done.

Note:

Actually there are some other options of permalink structure other than the pretty permalink above. Those are:

Numeric: Example, http://fatihsyuhud.com/archives/123. Just check the numeric and Save Change.
Custom, you can determine your own style here. But most SEO expert recommend to use a category based permalink such as http://fatihsyuhud.com/category/postname. For example, I wanted to put a category named “sexy-girl” or “dating” as my category based permalink, the whole structure will be like this: http://fatihsyuhud.com/sexy-girl/postname or http://fatihsyuhud.com/dating/postname . In order to make this kind of permalink structure, simply check the “Custom, specify below” and put this code in the blank box: /your-category/%postname% Don’t forget to save the change.

You should have a pretty permalinks of your choosing by now. Further reading.

Problem and Solution: Use Permalink Migration Plugin

In case you have used the ugly permalink for so long (have been indexed by google) and fearful that when you renew the parmalink you’ll lost your “mojo” (meaning, google juice), fear not. The problem has been resolved by Permalink Migration Plugin:

But doing so [i.e. changing permalinks) will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid,moreover, losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to you.

There is a way to tell the search engines (and browsers) that the page has permenantly moved, and that the old address should be replaced by the new one . It’s called a “301 Redirect”, also known as a Permanent Redirect.When you do this, Search engines will update their indexes quickly and you won’t lose your pagerank.you will continue to receive traffic as though nothing had changed. This works for search engines, bookmarks, and links from other sites.

By now, you know how can you change your permalinks without losing the traffic you’re already getting. You can download this Permalink Migration Plugin to achieve this for you.

Download the permalink migration plugin for free here. Follow the installation tutorial here.

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Fans Bola
January 7, 2009 at 2:15 pm

wah gue baru tau kalo wordpress.com ternyata permalinknya kyk gitu. Kirain bisa diset sendiri dgn klak-klik doank kyk yg domain sendiri

match1
January 17, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Nice news. Good side.

desi
January 22, 2009 at 4:21 am

sampeyan

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January 23, 2009 at 2:55 am

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shalimow.com
February 12, 2009 at 7:45 am

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gushid
March 26, 2009 at 4:02 am

langsung praktek aja ah

Ian
April 18, 2009 at 4:03 pm

It’s funny that you are encouraging SEO, and yet you have a spam list below under “Related Search:”. I’m not sure how well that works. ‘dating’ is a related search?