Permalink is nothing but defined URL, in regular language we can say it is a link of that particular post or website.
Permalink in word press or in any content management system is self-structured or it can be modified upto some an extent.
So in that modifications,we have many options to customize our website’s post url,now coming to uses of permalink and how it can be helpful in making website to drive more traffic
Uses of permalink
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It can be user-friendly,for example if a user want to manually type link of any post or page then url must be easy to write or tell to others,this can improve our website seo
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If the words of that permalink is seo friendly then it can drive more traffic by indexing in browsing pages.
How permalink can be modified?
Permalinks can be modified in to 6 major types
Explaining by taking my website as example
plain type of permalink setting :- This url describes our website name url/ and post number
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Day and name :- https://www.makemeskill.com/2019/01/11/sample-post/——— here it indicates our website name date of post published and name of the post
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month and name :- https://www.makemeskill.com/2019/01/sample-post/———here website url indicated website month and name of that post here name indicates heading of the that particular post)
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Numeric :- https://www.makemeskill.com/archives/123, Here wordpress url, archives of wordpress generates default numbers…..
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Sample post -https://www.makemeskill.com/sample-post/——–Here name of the website in url form and name of the post===== [ Here sample post is very frequently used in wordpress blogging