SEO Slugs Wordpress Plugin
If you’re using Wordpress for your niche websites or blogs, this plugin can help you optimize your blog post URLs for search engines.
When you publish a post with a title like this:
“What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings”,
Wordpress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug:
/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings
SEO Slugs plugin strips common words like “what”, “you” or “can” out of your post slug to make it more search engine friendly. With SEO Slugs plugin activated, the slug for our example blog post would look like this:
/immediately-higher-rankings
The slug is generated on saving a post (so you get a chance to look at it before publishing, and change it), or on publish. It won’t overwrite an existing slug. You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.
Installation: Unzip the downloaded file, and save seo-slugs.php file to the plugins folder of your blog, usually /wp-content/plugins.
Activation: Log into your Wordpress Admin, go to Plugins, find SEO Slugs plugin and click Activate.
Now, when editing a post, give it a title and press Save and Continue Editing. The SEO Slugs plugin will generate a slug. If you edit it, the plugin will honor your slug and won’t change it.
If you find this plug useful, please, link to this page (http://www.vretoolbar.com/news/seo-slugs-wordpress-plugin).
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Posted on Sunday, April 1st, 2007 at 2:22 AM
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Posted on 10-Oct-07 at 7:03 pm | Permalink
jeremy wrote:
What versions of WP will this work with?
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VRE Toolbar wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
The SEO Slugs plugin was tested on all versions of Wordpress after v2.0. I didn’t tested it on older versions, but I think it should work fine on versions prior to WP2.
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sushubh wrote:
does not seem to work on 2.6.2!
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ptvGuy wrote:
Does this not work in WP version 2.6.2? It does nothing to trim the slugs when I create a new post and save it. I’m still having to do this by hand.
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Gold Coast SEO wrote:
that is a great idea, thanks for the cool plugin. will recommend!
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Coerv wrote:
Hi,
.
this is a cool thing. Does it work with other languages, either? For example german
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Hi there, I have installed and activated the SEO slugs plug-in but does it work with WordPress 2.9.1. ?
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