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In this video, we're gonna take a look at how to edit your WordPress permalinks. Now, a permalink is simply the structure of your WordPress post and page URL that appears in the browser. To edit your permalinks, simply click on Settings, and you'll see here a link that says Permalinks click on that. And here, you would see that the default permalink for the WordPress blogs you're using looks something like this:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/?p=, and the number of the WordPress posts, or page.
Now there's absolutely nothing wrong with leaving the permalink as it is by default, but if you want to optimize your blog for search engines and get more free traffic from such search engines, then you have to make your permalinks more search-engine friendly. And the other three options that are listed here by default are actually more search-engine friendly permalink structures.
So let's select the third one here that will display the month and name. So as you can see here, it would display the year, followed by the month, and then followed by the postname. But generally speaking, the year and the month number are pretty much redundant and it does not help you at all if search engine optimization is what you're concerned about. So you may want to delete this entire section here and leave only the postname permalink quotes. And then I'm going to scroll to the bottom and click on Save Changes.
