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Question: In this post you wrote “Make sure your title tag has your title (headline) first before your blog name. You’ll need to edit your blog template to make sure that is happening. This is VERY important.”
My question to you is how is this done in the html?
Why do they make it so hard? :) It should be easier, especially since most bloggers aren’t technical or can even read any code at all. What most blog templates do is show the blog’s name, then a separator, then the blog post title tag. But you want to change that.
Why? Because you want your title (headline of your blog post) to show up first so that Google will read it and it will appear as more relevant when a searcher finds it. But how do you do this?
It’s actually pretty easy to do, but if you don’t know code, it can be difficult and scary to attempt. Rather than repeat what so many have done already here, I’ll point you to some good tutorials that are well done.
I want to get better search engine rankings. How do I change my Wordpress permalink structure without breaking my old blog links?
When you install Wordpress fresh, it sets your permalink structure to something like this:
» http://www.domainname.com/?p=123
That’s fine, it doesn’t hurt you. The problem is that you may want to later change your permalink structure to something that has your post title keywords in it for possible improved search engine rankings. For example, like this post.
So if you make that change, you risk losing all of your old search engine indexed pages, and possibly all of the bookmarks that people have accumulated to you over time.
So How Do I Change It Without Breaking My Links?
There’s a plugin that can help you called ‘Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress’.
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.
How Does It Work?
Here’s the technical details on how it works. I realize it can be confusing, but you should know how it works.
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.
Where Do I Get Started?
Simply download the plugin here and follow the directions. Good luck!
Bonus! AsktheBlogger Video On Wordpress Permalinks
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