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Old 01-28-2008, 09:50 AM
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What does it do? I'm baffled.
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If your webpage or blog has a URL (http://www.yoursite.com/page12.html)

Theres likely to be thousands of users using that keyword however if you define your page name.

http://www.yoursite.com/cheese-sandw...are-yummy.html)

You are more likely to be picked up for 'cheese sandwiches'

or 'cheese is yummy'

Opposed to a human and spider going Hmm, what has Page12 got on it? what the heck is it talking about.

Wordpress has a good help article on Permalinks just scroll down it somewhere near the bottom.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging
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Old 01-28-2008, 10:40 AM
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Gotcha! I'm using Joomla (as soon as I get it installed ). I plan to have user created pages and the name of their page will be their user ID. I hope I'll be able to do that. So I'll probably have to add the plugin that will make the link show up as www.domainname.com/userID.

I know they're talking about blog sections on Wordpress, but they refer to webpages the same way, if I'm reading it right. Do I understand it right?
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Rob touched on the importance of optimizing permalinks for searches but just to give you a general definition, a permalink is simply the static link to a post or blog entry. So if you wanted to link directly to Rob's comment in this thread you would use...

http://www.websitebabble.com/html-ja....html#post8330

And yes, I had to add (buy) a plug-in for this forum to make the permalinks contain the keywords from the thread title. Before I added the plug-in the permalinks were just www.websitebabble.com/post24234.html for example.
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Thank you guys! This really helps. I love this forum!!!
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