Maneesh asks me a question.
My permalink structure is
“/index.php/%year%/%postname%/”
I was wondering if this would have a bearing on my seo efforts.. my site is
indexed with about 5 pages of links on google now..
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To answer Maneesh – I see that 10 pages are indexed on Google at the moment from your site. I hope you have only 10 posts on your blog, if you have more, then there’s something wrong, since they are not indexed on Google.
Well, let me clarify something first. There are two issues here.
One – Indexing the number of pages on Google.
Two- Your permalink structure.
Answer to Indexing your pages on Google.
This has very little to do with your permalink structure. All you have to do is create a sitemap and submit it to google. You can find the instructions here.
Within a few days (according to your crawl frequency) all of your pages will be indexed on Google.
Answer to permalink structure.
Your pages appear to be in “almost” SEO friendly nature. The problem I see here is the index.php extension. You should get rid of it.
Go to your dashboard > Options > Permalinks
Select the “Custom” radio button and change the structure to this.
/%category%/%postname%/
or
/%year%/%day%/%postname%/
That should be it.
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thanks for this mani.. that was one heck of a speedy reply…
alright will change the permalink and remove the index.php extension…
will changing this in anyway affect some of the few pages that have been indexed?
and i already use the google sitemap generator plugin on my blog..so i guess that shud take care of it…
thanks once again!
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Maneesh,
It will not affect any pages that are indexed already. By the next crawl, everything else would be OK.
You may have trouble if someone else have linked to your earlier posts.(Link to your blog url is OK)
In which case you’ll have to do a 301 redirect.
Let me know if this goes well.
Cheers!
Mani
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