Your keyword needs to also be in your permalink. This will be taken care of for you if you did your title right the first time, but if you originally did not have your keyword in the title, saved a draft or published, and went back to change the title, then the permalink probably does not have the keyword.
Don't change the permalink if you already have stuff linking to the post otherwise all the links will break. However, if it is a new post you can change the permalink by clicking "edit" just below the title.
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ninjazrb
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Let's say for example this is a post you've had for a while and you have social media linking to it, other posts within your website linking to it, etc. If you change the permalink you will break ALL of those.
Only play around with the permalink if it is a post you JUST made. Does that all make sense? (And thanks for the feedback)
Only play around with the permalink if it is a post you JUST made. Does that all make sense? (And thanks for the feedback)
LaurenA
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To follow on that question, does it break comments? For instance, if it's a post that's a couple days old, hasn't really been noticed by Google yet, but has two comments.
If you change the permalink, would those comments get lost, or does Wordpress switch them to your new url for you?
If you change the permalink, would those comments get lost, or does Wordpress switch them to your new url for you?
mwanzaw2002
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Wow I'm loving this man. So true what you are saying, makes a ton of sense. I'm doing this on my site
