Beginner’s Guide about Post URLs, Internal and External Links

by Natalia Moreau
In Beginners · SEO
— 29 Mar, 2014

There are millions of WordPress websites of different niches have been lanced on the internet. However, few of them are enjoying a huge quantity of daily visitors. To launch a website is not enough but you also need to write quality content for that website and it needs a strong SEO strategy as well.

One of the major reasons to get popular of this Content Management System is its effective SEO features, which allow the beginner bloggers to promote their website or blog through WordPress SEO and social media plugins. These extremely valuable SEO techniques will help you to get long-term results of each post on your WordPress blog. Make your WordPress SEO more effective with this guide about Post URLs, internal and external links.

Blog Post URLs

The default URL structure of a WordPress post is www.yourdomain.com/?p=321 and it is not SEO friendly. First of all you need to change the URL structure of each WordPress blog post and make it your post name, like www.yourdoamin.com/your-post-title.html

It will help the search engine crawler to find your post easily with the specific keyword you use in your blog post title or URL. The numerical will never tell the crawler anything about your post content.

Internal Links

If you have ever wrote a blog post on a topic and you have to write another on the same topic don’t forget to interlink your previous post with the new one. It will create more user engagement on your webpages, which will be a positive indication for both users and search engines. You may also use some related post plugins to display your previously published post related to the new one.

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External Links

There are several web portals are writing their own views on same topics, you always have some external links as resources that would be helpful for your website audience. However the shared external links should be “nofollow” in order to make your SEO strategy effective for your own website. Keep in mind you are sharing external links as useful resources, not promoting the links of others’ websites.

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