SEO Onpage Optimization: How to Change Dynamic URLs to Static URLs in WordPress

By default, when you install a WordPress blog, your URLs are set to be dynamic URLs which are not user friendly or search engine friendly. And it is very important for your blog’s SEO onpage optimization to change dynamic URLs to static URLs.

Dynamic URLs look like this: www.mywebsite.com/?=12345.

Anyone who sees a URL like this one will have no idea what the page contains, not even the search engines will know. So that’s why it is important for SEO to change this configuration in your WordPress blog.

Static URLs look like this: www.mywebsite.com/seo-onpage-optimization.

This looks totally different ant it lets users and search engines know what they will find on that page. This helps your pages rank a bit higher on the search engines, and is one of the onpage optimization strategies that you need to apply to your WordPress blog. I’ll teach you how you can easily change dynamic URLs to static URLs on your WordPress blog.

First you need to go to your blog’s wp-admin, and then go to Setting –> Permalinks. By default you will see the “Default” option selected that makes your URLs be dynamic. So, instead, you need to change this setting and select… Read the rest