Making SEO Friendly Permalink | Importance of Permalink in SEO

What is a Permalink?

Permalinks are the full URL of your blog post, pages, and other content in your Blog or Website.

Example:

https://gyanify-u.blogspot.com/2022/01/what-not-to-do-in-google-my-business.html

https://gyanify-u.blogspot.com/tips/what-not-to-do-in-google-my-business.html


These are different types of pages on your blog like blog posts, pages, archives, media, category, tags, etc. Whenever you change the old Permalink on Blogger or create it for new blog posts. The permalinks are taken as

https://gyanify-u.blogspot.com/2022/01/what-not-to-do-in-google-my-business.html

How to Change Permalink in Blogger? How to change permalink in Blogger BlogSpot

Now, Blogger has an option for custom permalink, which is given on the right sidebar of the post editor.

If a blog post permalink has not correct structure, then most of the blog’s SEO tricks do not work properly. Due to this reason, the blog post will not perform well in search engines.

Aware bloggers publish their posts with English titles and then change the title in the mother language. But this method is not enough to create an SEO-friendly permalink. The only solution is using the available custom permalink option.

Example of Blogger Post’s Custom Permalinks

https://gyanify-u.blogspot.com/2022/01/what-not-to-do-in-google-my-business.html

Now you are aware of the post permalink.

How to Edit Permalink in Blogger (New Interface)

1. First, login into the Blogger dashboard.

2. Select a blog from the given drop-down.

3. Click on the Posts tab. It is available on the left sidebar. You see the published posts.

4. Click on a particular post to edit.

Steps to change permalink in Blogger 1

5. You will see a drop-down attached with the Preview button. Click on the Revert to draft option.

6. Now, you can edit the permalink for the post. Make it SEO-friendly.

7. Double-check the changes and Publish your post with a new permalink.

How to Edit Permalink in Blogger (Old Interface)

1. Login into Blogger dashboard.

2. Select a blog.

3. Click on the ‘Posts’ tab given on the left side. Here, you’ll find the published posts.

4. To customize the permalink of a post, hover the mouse on the post title, now you’ll be able to see the ‘Edit’ option.

6. Click on the ‘Edit’ option.

7. After this, you can find the ‘Revert to Draft‘ option next to the ‘Update’ button.

8. Click on the ‘Revert to Draft’ button.

9. Now, click on the ‘Chain’ icon of the Permalink.

10. After typing an SEO-friendly permalink, click the Done button to publish the post.

How to Get Post Permalink Correctly?

Only characters (a to z, A to Z), numbers (0 to 9), and special characters like underscore (_), dash (-), and dot (.) are allowed in post permalink.

Permalink 1 and 2 seem similar, but they are different due to using upper and lower case.

Don’t Forget to Create Custom Redirects

After changing your blog post permalink, you should redirect your old permalink to a new permalink. It will keep sending your visitors to the blog, who have access to your old permalink. You can read our article on how to create custom redirects for more information.

How to Remove Date from Blogger Post URL?

A few bloggers asked me how to remove date in Blogger permalink. So, friends, it is not officially possible to remove date from Blogger post URL. You may find some of the javascript-based solutions to this question, but your blog’s feed will keep the original permalink structure. So, Google may penalize your blog for too many unnatural redirections.

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