Comments on: Handy resources for setting up WordPress http://charlesgnilka.com/blogging/handy-resources-for-setting-up-wordpress/ The G is silent Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:51:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: charles http://charlesgnilka.com/blogging/handy-resources-for-setting-up-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-4 charles Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:32:51 +0000 http://charlesgnilka.com/wordpress/2007/01/handy-resources-for-setting-up-wordpress/#comment-4 Yikes! I will fix that right away. Thanks for the info! Yikes! I will fix that right away. Thanks for the info!

]]> By: Lorelle http://charlesgnilka.com/blogging/handy-resources-for-setting-up-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Lorelle Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:17:25 +0000 http://charlesgnilka.com/wordpress/2007/01/handy-resources-for-setting-up-wordpress/#comment-3 Just a note. "If you want search engines to find your posts, you need to edit your permalinks" is not true. Permalinks are text-like addresses for your web pages. They do not influence, one way or another, whether or not a search engine finds your posts. There is some belief that it adds some weight to your page rank in Google, though it really isn't much on the overall score card compared to keywords in content, title and descriptions in links and images, keywords in headings, and so on. They were originally referred to as "pretty permalinks" or "pretty urls" since they turned something like /example.com/index.php?p=4356 into /example.com/2007/01/27/article-title-here-is-nice. They do no more than that. Search engines will find you, if your underlying code lets them. What they find when they get there is up to you, and permalinks aren't that important, only pretty. ;-) Just a note. “If you want search engines to find your posts, you need to edit your permalinks” is not true. Permalinks are text-like addresses for your web pages. They do not influence, one way or another, whether or not a search engine finds your posts. There is some belief that it adds some weight to your page rank in Google, though it really isn’t much on the overall score card compared to keywords in content, title and descriptions in links and images, keywords in headings, and so on.

They were originally referred to as “pretty permalinks” or “pretty urls” since they turned something like /example.com/index.php?p=4356 into /example.com/2007/01/27/article-title-here-is-nice. They do no more than that.

Search engines will find you, if your underlying code lets them. What they find when they get there is up to you, and permalinks aren’t that important, only pretty. ;-)

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