2008 July | Ruhani Rabin
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How to Change Wordpress Permalinks without affecting Google

Wordpress Permalinks, first key to make your site SEO friendly. But wordpress by default uses the permalinks structures such as

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

and this is not really a good idea cause it will return your topics url which will look like this below

http://www.abc.com/2008/07/31/your-post-slug/

And say for the instance you’ve already has a handful of topics that has been posted for a while and google has indexed it. So now you want to change your Wordpress Permalinks to a much more friendly url settings such as

http://www.abc.com/your-post-slug/

Yes you can easily upgrade your structure from WordPress Admin options but all the links indexed by google wont be able to land on the proper topics. (more…)

How to fix wordpress 2.6 dashboard to have incoming Technorati Links

From WordPress 2.3 onwards the administration dashboard displays Google blog search incoming links. Which is not always to the point and also not updated frequently. Lot of us suffers possibly because we are so used to look for incoming links to our blog from Technorati, which is more accurate, updated and to the point. I was looking for a possible solution in Google, found a few, namely from Soft Tech Reviews. . I was studying it and I found out the structure for fetching the blog incoming links has been changed dramatically in WordPress 2.6, now it’s more object oriented code and the fetch RSS codes doesn’t stay in /wp-admin/index-extra.php , it actually uses index-extra.php to call the object from /wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php.

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