Permalinks in wordpress

Permalinks are the direct, permanent links to any content on your site. It’s what other websites will
use to link to your content.By default, WordPress creates permalinks that are less than useful. They
have question marks and lots of numbers that are completely meaningless to the average user. They
look like this:

http://www.mysite.com/?p=206

That garbled mess isn’t helpful to anybody, including search engines. These links obviously work—
that number is the ID of the content and they get people where they need to go. But they don’t tell
the reader – or search engines – very much, hence they aren’t very useful. A simple improvement is
to make your permalinks user friendly. Useful permalinks look like this:

http://www.mysite.com/?p=206

That garbled mess isn’t helpful to anybody, including search engines. These links obviously work—
that number is the ID of the content and they get people where they need to go. But they don’t tell
the reader – or search engines – very much, hence they aren’t very useful. A simple improvement is
to make your permalinks user friendly. Useful permalinks look like this: