How to update .htaccess file and Boost Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) using Permalinks

Arham Haryadi January 8, 2008 16

I’m newbie, but I think I still can give You my advice right ?… as my new resolution finally I rebuild for some pieces of Road-entrepreneur.com / Arham Journey. one of them is change my permalink.

the hits problem of newbie for which not an Technical is, If you want to change your Permalink Structure in WordPress from , such as :

All you have to do is:

  1. Create a new file called “.htaccess” in any text editor and past the following content into the .htaccess file.
  2. Upload the file to your homepage root folder

Permalinks are a feature of most blogging applications – they are are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, categories and other lists of weblog postings. For instance, the Permalink for the listing of all the posts I have written in the Search Engine Optimisation category is like:

Permalinks are a feature of most blogging applications – they are are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, categories and other lists of weblog postings. For instance, the Permalink for the listing of all the posts I have written in the Search Engine Optimisation category is:

Road-entrepreneur.com/category/search-engine-optimisation/

WordPress, you can control how your Permalinks look and this can have a significant
effect on your site’s search engine optimisation. For example, if you don’t change the
where 49 is the post number. However, if you go to Options -> Permalinks in WordPress and change your Permalink structure to something like /%year%/%postname%/ or even
just /%postname%/ the title of your post will become part of the url for your post.
If you default Permalink setup on your WordPress blog, the link to your postswill look. something like:http://domainname.com/index.php?p=49

use keywords and keyphrases which you want your site to be found by in the post title,then you will increase your chances of being found by people who search for that
keyphrase. For example the url this post is:

Road-entrepreneur.com/boost-search-engine-optimisation-seo-using-permalinks/ Of course, if you One word of caution – if you just use /%postname%/ as your Permalink structure, this may cause you problems – according to the Codex page on Permalinks:

the rewrite rules may make it impossible to access pages such as your stylesheet (which has a similar format) or the wp-admin folder

In my own case, my Permalinks are set to /%postname%/ and consequently I can’t access my Awstats folder. I have set my Permalinks to /%postname%/ because that structure gives the maximum SEO benefit for adsense- the further down the URL your keyphrases are, the lower they will appear in Search Engine results.

The way around the Awstats issue for me is to change the Permalink structure to /%year%/%postname%/ briefly, access the Awstats folder and change the Permalink structure back. This method is unsatisfactory because anyone following a link to a Permalinked article on the site will get a 404 while the structure is altered and they have own pros blogger & cons blogger for this. But it is the best I have come up with so far till I read on Imigrationlink at here

  • http://www.malaikax.wordpress.com Malaikax

    There’s some tricks for hidden your affiliate using .htaccess too, you can find out there. You must try it Arham :-) That would be nice hehe..

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  • http://www.d60pc.com d60pc

    gud info bro. thanks

  • http://wanita.cheatgame.info gadis

    mas, cara create new file gimana ? pas bagian “htaccess” (aq msh baru dlm wp)

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    nice example ;) permalink should be concerned in optimizing your blogsite.

  • http://www.backlinks-manager.com one way links

    There’s some tricks for hidden your affiliate using . Try to find on this site
    ” That would be nice “

  • http://accountinglectures.com/ Accounting Teacher

    This is really helpful post. I was looking for the information, and your post is ranked high for this keyword.

    • http://www.road-entrepreneur.com Arham Blogpreneur

      Thanks so much…. but what’s keywords are you looking for this ?

  • http://bigtimeups.com/jump-reviews.php?id=rentre The Jump Manual

    Changing your permalinks to something other than a date format is very important to improve your SEO. I typically use category and postname. Keep up the good work.

  • http://www.internetworkmarketingwealth.com annalaurabrown

    The instructions seem simple enough, but I am still having issues with this. I upload the file but wordpress still says that I need to update my .htaccess file. grrr.

  • http://inventco.net arham blogpreneur

    @annalaurabrown

    It’s could be your WP version… I think :D

  • http://www.motosport.in memey

    thats great man,thanks

  • http://www.deck-lighting.org Leon Murray

    i still frequently use Google despite the appearance and popularity of the Bing search engine;-:

  • http://www.catnipcat.net Catnip 

    the bing search engine seems to be a great competition to google`.`

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NHTT4II7O6UHUPRGVIOKMCKDQ4 Roert Brookes

    This is one of the great article that i have seen ever.