Basic WordPress SEO


Out of the box, WordPress is a pretty well optimized system, and does a far better job at allowing every single page to be indexed than every other CMS I have used. But there are a few things you should do to make it a lot easier still to work with.
The first thing to change is your permalink structure. You�ll find the permalink settings under Settings ? Permalinks. The default permalink is ?p=<postid>, but I prefer to use either /post-name/ or /category/post-name/. For the first option, you change the setting to /%postname%/:
Permalink Settings for WordPress SEO
To include the category, you select �Custom Structure� and change the value to/%category%/%postname%/. If you previously had ?p=<postid> as your permalink WordPress will take care of all the redirects for you. This is also true if you change from/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/. If you change from any other permalink structure, you might want to consult my article on changing your WordPress permalink structure and the tool that you�ll find within it.

1.1.2WWW vs non-WWW

You need to think about what you want your site to show up as, www.example.com or simply example.com. Make sure that in your general settings, under Settings ? General, the version you want to show up is properly reflected:
List your site with or without WWW for WordPress SEO
You will also want to set this correctly in Google Webmaster Tools. Make sure to set up your site with Google Webmaster Tools and set the preferred domain, you can find this setting under Settings ? Preferred domain:
Google Webmaster Tools Preferred Domain

1.1.3Stop words

The last thing you�ll want to do about your permalinks to increase your WordPress SEO, is remove so called stopwords. Words like �a�, �and�, �the� etc. As of version 1.1.6, my WordPress SEO plugin will automatically remove stop words from your slugs once you save a post, so you won�t get those ugly long URL�s when you do a sentence style post title.
This is generally not something you want to change after posts have gone live. If people have already linked to it, try to not change the permalink anymore and if you do, make sure the post is properly redirected. In most cases WordPress should redirect the old URL to the new one but if it doesn�t you need to make the redirect manually.  ajmalseotips.blogspot.com