WordPress Tip - Use the WordPress Post Slug

By Kyle Eslick on December 5th, 2007 | Filed Under WordPress Tips
Tag(s): Post Slug, WordPress, WordPress Tips

If you aren’t a person that is fairly concious of Search Engine Optimization when blogging, you probably having given much thought to the Post Slug field in your WordPress write panel.

Creating a post slug basically allows you to create the post URL of your choice after your blog’s name, depending on the permalink structure that your blog uses. By default, the post slug will be the blog post’s title. For example, by default, this would post having the following URL:

http://hackwordpress.com/wordpress-tip-use-the-wordpress-post-slug

Unfortunately, this is not a very search engine friendly URL, as many of the keywords are at the end of the URL. By setting my own custom post slug, I am able to create a better URL for my post:

http://hackwordpress.com/wordpress-post-slug

In this case, my post title focuses on the keywords for this post, creating more emphasis on them. The great thing about this tip is it takes a very minimal amount of time to do and will become second nature once you’ve turned it into a habit.

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There Are 3 Responses So Far. »

1 Bradly Fletchall
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at 9:30 am

Great tip. I had been wondering what the post slug did but I hadn’t really looked into it.
2 Kyle Eslick
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at 9:27 pm

No problem Bradley! Glad you found the post useful.