How to create effective permalinks for your website and blog

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How to create effective permalinks for your website and blog

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  • "None of this is true, but we can see what leads people to these conclusions, with so many alarmist headlines that “SEO is dead.” As a consultancy that gets FAST, impressive, clean results for our clients, we can tell you that assertion is completely untrue and there are, in fact, 8 things you can do to your blog posts to get them to perform better in search."
  • "Concentrating blog efforts on optimizing overly generic terms like “SEM” and “SEO” won’t help you, nor will overusing clunky keyword phrases like “tips for optimizing your blog post for SEO.” We recommend using a tool like Buzzsumo to see what your competitors are blogging about and what your target market is interested in reading."
  • "If we left it to chance, the permalink may have contained every word in the post headline (/8-Ways-To-Optimize-Your-Blog-Post-&-Kick-Ass-At-SEO) or may have defaulted to a generic construct like (/?p=123)."
  • "You’ll want to: use dashes, rather than underscores; remove stop words like “is” and “are”; and include a keyword in the link."
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Key quotes:

  • "So when you look up something on search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing, you are going through the top sites that these search engines rank based on alt tags, keywords, and content."
  • "Therefore, most businesses and blogs, who need more traffic, rely on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to reach people."
  • "WordPress allows a very helpful plugin named Google XML Sitemaps that instantly creates a sitemap of your site which helps search engines to classify your site better."
  • "WordPress offers ways to improve search engine optimisation through themes that you can use to provide your site with a robust foundation."
  • "Content that is high quality ensures user engagement, so whether it is a personal blog or a business website, you need good content to list higher on search engines."
  • "When it comes to useful SEO methods, correctly applying heading tags is very important."
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Key quotes:

  • "For example, here is the permalink of this article: https://flashreviewz.com/optimize-permalink/ Or say the other, permalink is the link that people have to click, or type in the browser bar to be able to reach your site."
  • "However, the installation of permalink also affect SEO, so you will have to choose the most effective way."
  • "Too Long URLs can be confusing and unfriendly to both users and search engines.” Based on the advice from google, you will surely recognize the permalink structure Post name will be most popular and is recommended to use."
  • "Take a look at the URL: https://flashreviewz.com/Best-ways-to-make-money-online/ You will see this structure qualify to become user-friendly and search engine friendly."
  • "For example: Neil patel’s blog is using this structure: https://neilpatel.com/blog/permalink-seo/ The second type is Day and name, which contains the date, month, year, and then the name of the article."
  • "Setting up permalink is a very easy and basic process when you have just installed a WordPress website, but it has a great influence on SEO and is long term, difficult to change later… So please apply the knowledge in this article to your site today!."
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  • "If you own a business and want to have online trading, then one of the most effective marketing strategies is to take advantage of search engines, for example, Google and Yahoo."
  • "There have been a lot of information on the internet that discusses regarding tips and tricks for an optimal website on search engines especially Google."
  • "The first step that is very important and you should do is to find out how people typing keywords on Google search engine to find the information you need."
  • "But by entering keywords in the domain will certainly help search engines to find out the focus of the website created."
  • "While examples of domains that do not use keywords on domains are usually websites of companies, for example, google.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, detik.com, yahoo.com, and others."
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  • "Before diving into possible solutions for boosting your corporate blog and ensuring more people find, read and share your articles, it’s important to understand what I call the ‘holy trinity’ of organic traffic."
  • "That means the three main factors that decide whether you’ll rank among the first three entries on Google, or simply disappear in the latter search engine ranking pages where even the most eager user won’t find you."
  • "Based on research, data and trial and error, I’ve discovered that organic traffic drivers can be divided into three main categories: UX, domain score and content: User experience refers to factors such as how fast your website loads, how modern your design is, how easy it is to navigate your site and to what extent you’re fulfilling users’ search intentions."
  • "By targeting the right keywords, optimizing for SEO and creating high-quality pieces, content marketing can be very powerful."
  • "If you’re excelling in domain authority and your UX is excellent, not publishing enough high-quality content will still mean you’re invisible to search engines."
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