Optimizing your blog for the search engine is crucial for improving your search engine ranking and helping Google tells what your pages are about. By default, WordPress’ URLs uses question marks and numeric characters, which I call “Dirty URLs”. Dirty URLs can prohibits awareness of your website and content.
What Are Dirty URLs?
While websurfing, I have noticed some dirty urls that should be avoided.
Here are a few examples:
http://mywebiste.com/?p=46
or http://mywebsite.com/pl?id=4&view=basic
“Dirty url” is known to confuse the heck out of the search spiders. If you have a look at the above url, would you ever recall the link off the top of your head and/or determine the keywords pertaining to the post? Probably, not!
Spiders, also known as crawlers, follow and crawls links throughout the internet, seeking contents and adding them into the search engine indexes. The more confusing links to your site, the less likely the search spider will crawl and index all of your pages.
Making a Dirty URL Clean and SEO Friendly
Fortunately, Word press provides options to customize your website url structure to improve search engine ranking and sharing compatibility.
Here’s is quick solution:
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