It’s important (for blog SEO best practices)

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It’s important (for blog SEO best practices) to ensure your permalink settings are optimized to publish new blog posts in the format of yourwebsite.com/post-name (like you saw in the video above). This’ll help your website pages rank higher in search engines because it’s more easily digestible for them to make sense of.

In your WordPress dashboard, hover over “Settings” and albania phone number database to Settings > Permalinks to make this change. It should look like this:

WordPress Settings Permalinks for Your Website

You’ll still be able to customize a page URL before hitting publish in WordPress, but now you’ve got a default URL structure that’ll be SEO-friendly.

Cleaning up your default website URL.

After your free Elementor WordPress theme is installed, I recommend cleaning up the URL of your website to omit the “www” that’s sometimes shown before your site’s URL.

You can change this quickly by going to Settings > General and removing the “www” if it’s still present in your site URL field.

All of the pages on your website will now automatically serve the cleaner-looking URL for your website.

Setting your website homepage.

As we touched on in the video tutorial above, my advice is to set your homepage to be where your new posts display (for right now).

How to Make a Website and Set Default Homepage

You do have the option of setting your website’s homepage to be a static, custom-designed page that can serve to capture email sign-ups, sell a product, or otherwise in the future.

But for right this moment, stick with just a list of your recent blog posts (of which there will be none for right now).

And if you’re setting your homepage to display your latest posts, consider changing the settings to show the complete text of your blog posts right there on the homepage for now, rather than a list that has short previews of each post.

Since you likely won’t have much content on your website for the next few days or weeks, that’ll make it look like there’s more content in the short term, and you can change the settings back to a list or a newly designed static front page once you’ve had more time to dig into your website.