devSolo

As long as I’ve had this WordPress blog, I’ve cringed every time I look at my URLs and see ugly query strings in every link. 

i.e. http://devSolo.com/?p=245

Where does that link go to? Who knows? I much prefer to see the link in a SEO Friendly (and very human readable):

http://devsolo.com/index.php/2009/05/what-should-the-guy-that-comes-after-me-know/

Yes, it’s longer, and not search engine friendly, but it is human readable.  It’s not search engine friendly because I didn’t use any useful keywords to start the title.  I’ll have to pay more attention to that in future articles.

Anyway,  I played around with dasBlog and BlogEngine.Net and they both generated the SEO Friendly URLs by default.  So I considered switching to BlogEngine. For some reason I assumed that if WordPress didn’t do it by default, it must not be able to.  That’s what I get for assuming.  So if you are using WordPress and would like much friendlier URLs then just change the following Setting:

1) From your management page: Select [Settings]

2) then [Permalinks]

3) then pick your prefered style.

4) Profit…

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