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001 Creating a custom URL in WordPress

001 Creating a custom URL in WordPress

From the course: View Source

001 Creating a custom URL in WordPress

Hello! This is Ray Villalobos and welcome to View Source! This week we're learning about customizing your WordPress URLs to optimize your site for search engines. So if you dream of your site traffic soaring like an eagle, then it's probably time to View Source. Whether you're a designer or developer, it's important to understand how you can optimize your site for search engines. There is a lot of advice out there including lynda.com's excellent series of tutorials in the Online Training Library. If you're just getting started, you should definitely check out Google's SEO Starter Guide which is part of their Webmaster Tools, available in Webmaster Central at google.com/webmasters. One of the nuggets of information is to make sure you optimize your site URLs. As Google says, if your URL contains relevant words, this provides users and search engines with more information about the page than an ID or oddly-named parameter would. Because WordPress generates sites from a PHP and MySQL…

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