Improve your Blog Posts
By Preblogging in Blog Tips, SEO
I’ve just installed “SEO Slugs” on all of my blogs. Basically it is something that will improve your slugs, or the piece of of the URL that comes after your blog directory of the post. What SEO Slugs does is it removes unnecessary common words like “the, a, and, what, etc” and makes it that little bit nicer for search engines.
SEO Post Improvement
So say you have a post, with the title “What is the best way to get to London by bus”, Wordpress will generate a post slug “/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-to-London-by-bus/” which is not the nicest. When you use the plugin it will generate “/london-bus/”as the slug. This will help you rank higher for people searching on how to get to London by bus. This plugin saves you the hassle of manually thinking of what post slug would be the best for the post. Without this plugin, your keyword density is really diluted and you won’t help yourself in anyway (from the SEO perspective).
The smart thing about this plug-in is that if you decided to manually set the post slug then it will leave your post alone. But in those cases you don’t it will work it’s magic. In case you are wondering where to find the post slugs, they are on the right, above the Post Status. Here is what the nice box looks like:
If you are serious about improving your blog’s SEO then you should thing about the different plugins that are available to improve them. Another one I use on all my blogs is “All in ONE SEO pack“. Have a nice weekend everyone !
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10 Comment(s)
By Jayne | Reply
Hey this sounds great. Half the time I forget to change the slugs anyway. Oops!
By BeckyS | Reply
i’ve found they have made a difference . incase you are lazy like me this could help your rankings
By A Blog about Nothing | Reply
I’ll have to give this a try. Thanks!
By BeckyS | Reply
it is definitely something you should do, as it will help your rankings
By Website Toolbox Pro, Anne | Reply
SEO Slugs is actually the very first plugin I install on my new blogs. It works great, helps to optimize blog posts for search engines and saves time.
The second plugin I install on my new blogs is Smart Update Pinger (http://www.daven.se/usefulstuff/wordpress-plugins.html). It replaces the built-in ping/notify functionality to ping only when publishing new posts, not when editing.
Thanks!
By Googlelady | Reply
Nice to see that you have installed this plugin. It really improves your rankings by removing some useless words in the url.
By Tay | Reply
Looks very handy, and it might have to be one I get for my own blog. Sometimes I change the slug manually but often I forget. Thanks for sharing!
By Sean from AboutBlogging.Info | Reply
Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to have another look at installing Wordpress. That five minute installation still hasn’t worked out for me!
By Bull3t | Reply
Sounds like a brilliant plugin – my post slugs usually contain the title of the post, hyphenated and de-punctuated, the default. It can make posts slugs kinda large though. Thanks for this.
By BeckyS | Reply
I’m glad people have found this useful. For SEO reasons this is a very good plugin to have, unless you want to do every slug yourself.
I wouldn’t worry about older slugs, just concentrate on new posts. Unless you have lots of time on your hands to go back and tweak them.