Make Money from a Mini Website – Part 8

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This is the final part in this series. In this part we look at how to configure Wordpress to make your Mini Website more search engine friendly.

Search Engine Friendly URLs

It is important to choose a search engine friendly URL structure for your Mini Website. One of the most SEO friendly URL structure is to simply use the name of the Wordpress post as the URL. For example, if your post name is called “How to Remove Stains in Carpets” then your URL structure will be something like “http://HomeCarpetCleaning.com/how-to-remove-stains-in-carpets/”.

Simply follow the instruction below to change the URL structure of your Wordpress based Mini Website.

1. Log into Wordpress
2. Select Settings –> Permalinks
3. Under Custom Settings in the Custom Structure field enter the value “/%postname%/” (excluding quotes)

That’s it. Now you have a search engine friendly URL.

Removing Multiple Posts from the Front Page

By default a Wordpress website always shows more that 1 post in the front page of the website. Ideally what we want is to show the best and most appropriate article in the front page. This is easily done with the following setting:

1. Log into Wordpress
2. Select Settings –> Reading
3. Set the value of the field Blog pages show at most to 1
4. To show the most appropriate article or post in the front page of your website, set the date of the post to the most recent date.

Using Multiple Tags

In order to get more pages indexed by Google, add multiple tags to your posts. For each new tag you add, Wordpress will create a new page for that tag. This means your website will have more pages indexed in Google.

Ending Note

Well that is the end of this series. I sincerely hope that you found this series useful. Soon I’ll be publishing this series as an eBook. Visit techthinker.com for more updates.