Tuesday Tips

Helpful tips to get the most out of your website & social media

Tip #3

Web

Create SEO friendly URLs


Some Content Management Systems (such as WordPress) will, by default, use the page ID for the URL, resulting in something along the lines of www.mvswebdesign.com/?page_id=2 rather than www.mvswebdesign.com/tuesday-tips

Unless people are actively searching terms like 'page_id=2' it's going to be a tough page to find.

To correct this in WordPress, go to Settings > Permalinks and change the option button to 'Post Name' or use your own custom structure.

Individual pages, including existing ones, can be amended via Pages and selecting the Quick Edit function. The 'slug' field can then be set manually.