By default Word Press maintain urls which are not SEO friendly and contains lots of numbers and questions marks. If you are going to keep these urls, there are chances that search engines won’t be so happy from your website. So, I would suggest you to get rid of these ugly urls and replace these with pretty and seo-friendly urls for your blog.

Don’t worry. Its a just two step procedure. Let me explain it to you.

1- Simply choose your url structure

Go to admin panel of WordPress. There will be a link for Permalink in Settings panel. There will be options given for common settings (Default, Day and name and Custom etc). You can read more about custom url structure from http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks.

For example, you can select custom structure, and enter /%postname%/%post_id%/  for “blogname/postname/postid”  like structure.

2- Update .htaccess file

Either you select any pre-defined url structure or define one of yourself, you need to update .htaccess. If .htaccess is writable, wordpress update it for, otherwise, just scroll down and get the code for new url structure and update .htaccess. It is found in public_html (Linux server) or www (Windows hosting) folder

In case you still have any trouble in making your urls seo friendly, write to me. I will try to respond at earliest.

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