Optimizing The WordPress Permalink Structure
18.04.09 by Jerome in SEO, Tutorials
By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and page ID numbers http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/?p=123.
WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure to be more search engine and user friendly by changing the link structure. I personally prefer to use /category/post-name/ to for example http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/wordpress-themes/10-beautiful-dark-colour-wordpress-themes.
To apply this setting, go under Settings -> Permalinks. Change the default setting by ticking under “Common Setting” -> Custom Structure and add into /%category%/%postname% 
For WordPress bloggers who want to be listed in Google news, you need to conform with Google policy by having at least a three digit identifier at the end of every URL. Simply add to your custom structure /%category%/%postname%/%post_id% http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/wordpress-themes/10-beautiful-dark-colour-wordpress-themes/123
Structure Tags Options
You can use these tags below to customize your permalinks:
- %year% (The year of the post)
- %monthnum% (Month number of the year)
- %day% (Day number of the month)
- %hour% (Hour number of the day)
- %minute% (Minute number of the hour)
- %second% (Second number of the minute)
- %postname% (Post title)
- %post_id% (The unique ID # of the post)
- %category% (Category name)
- %tag% (Tag name)
- %author% (Author name)
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