Increase Your Permalink SEO With SEO Slugs - WP Plugin Must Have

In my last post How To Edit Your Blogger Link Structure Easily I showed how it's possible to edit your Blogger permalink using a simple trick.

I didn't want to leave my WordPress friends out in the cold and it just so happens I ran across SEO Slugs a plugin for WordPress that automatically edits your filename for you.

It edits out all the unnecessary words to help shorten up the link and make it more optimized.

Of course there are other ways to edit your permalink structure in WordPress but this is a pretty good automated solution.

Plug-in Details

The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in' from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.

For example, when you publish a post with a title like this:

"What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings",

WordPress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug:

/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings

SEO Slugs plugin strips common words like "what", "you" or "can" out of your post slug to make it more search engine friendly. With SEO Slugs plugin activated, the slug for our example blog post would look like this:

/immediately-higher-rankings

The slug is generated on saving a post (so you get a chance to look at it before publishing, and change it), or on publish. It won't overwrite an existing slug. You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.

The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in' from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.