How to laid upward the URL for Blogger posts
This article shows how to role the Permalink options to command the URL (ie website address) used for a post service inwards your blog.
When y'all commencement let on a post service inwards blogger, an URL (called a permalink inwards blogger) is automatically generated for that post. It looks like:
In this URL:
Initially, Blogger choses the WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-MY based on the title, or the commencement words inwards the post service if the championship was blank. They role or thus rules eg leaving out "the" as well as other mutual words, as well as putting numbers on the terminate thus that every post service has a unique URL (called a "permalink" inwards Blogger).
However Blogger also has a tool that lets y'all select the WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-POST separately from the post-title.
1 Edit the post inwards the commons way.
2 In the Post Settings expanse (currently at the right manus side of the editor), in that place is a department called Permalink.
iii Click on Links to demonstrate the options inwards it.
iv Click the custom URL radio button
v Type the words that y'all desire to use inwards WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-POST into the Custom URL box
vi Click Done.
seven Finish the post, as well as Publish it.
(you cannot come across the post, because that detail spider web log isn't opened upwards for world reading.)
If the combinaton of yyyy-mm from post-date (which y'all tin sack alter - come across Setting the Post Date) as well as WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-BLOG is non unique, Blogger volition larn out out the terminal character(s), as well as lay inwards numbers to larn far unique.
It alone applies to Posts, non Pages: the alone way to influence the URL / permalink for a Page on your spider web log is to select the initial words inwards the page-title very carefully. (Ref: the deviation betwixt Posts as well as Pages)
If y'all remember the alter is worth it, as well as then y'all postulate to remember almost what specific words
1) accurately reverberate the content of your blog, and
2) are probable to survive the words that people search for.
Unless you're a spammer, in that place is no betoken inwards making your post service url www.myBlog/2012-07/hot-and-sexy-topic if your post service doesn't accept whatever content almost hot-and-sexy-topic. (And if y'all are a spammer, y'all may equally good larn out Blogger now, earlier y'all larn kicked off anyway.)
Leave out smaller filler words similar "the" "a" "and" - unless they are relevant to the post-contents. For illustration include "the Who" if your post service is almost the band called The Who, but larn out it out if your post service is almost the cats who tin sack fly.
Lastly, many SEO experts (self-proclaimed as well as otherwise) tell that dashes are better than dots or underscores. Only Google as well as Bing know if they'are right or not. But it's in all likelihood a goodness thought to role xxx-yy-aaaa instead of xxx_yy_aaaa or xxx.yy.aaaa, only inwards illustration they are.
This isn't the way Blogger worked before: until now, I oft published a post service alongside 1 championship using the words I wanted inwards the URL, as well as and then really apace edit it as well as alter the championship to the words I wanted inwards the title. For example, for a recent post
I only tried this 1 time to a greater extent than inwards my test-blog, as well as constitute that it's even thus true: fifty-fifty if y'all alter the title, the post service URL doesn't change.
However y'all tin sack now:
www.yourDomain/yyyy/mm/WORDS-ABOUT-MY-POST
In this URL:
- yourDomain is either your custom domain / third-party URL (eg fred-fish.com) or your blogspot domain if y'all aren't using a custom domain at the fourth dimension (eg www.blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com)
- yyyy/mm is the twelvemonth as well as calendar month of the post's master copy publication date.
Initially, Blogger choses the WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-MY based on the title, or the commencement words inwards the post service if the championship was blank. They role or thus rules eg leaving out "the" as well as other mutual words, as well as putting numbers on the terminate thus that every post service has a unique URL (called a "permalink" inwards Blogger).
However Blogger also has a tool that lets y'all select the WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-POST separately from the post-title.
How to alter the customizable business office of the URL for a post
1 Edit the post inwards the commons way.2 In the Post Settings expanse (currently at the right manus side of the editor), in that place is a department called Permalink.
iii Click on Links to demonstrate the options inwards it.
iv Click the custom URL radio button
v Type the words that y'all desire to use inwards WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-POST into the Custom URL box
vi Click Done.
seven Finish the post, as well as Publish it.
Restrictions
The alone characters y'all tin sack role are:- lowercase letters (ie a, b, c ... z)
- uppercase letters (ie A, B, C ... Z)
- digits (ie 0, 1, 2 ... 9)
- underscore (ie _)
- dash (ie - )
- full-stop, also known equally a menses (ie .)
(you cannot come across the post, because that detail spider web log isn't opened upwards for world reading.)
If the combinaton of yyyy-mm from post-date (which y'all tin sack alter - come across Setting the Post Date) as well as WORDS-ABOUT-YOUR-BLOG is non unique, Blogger volition larn out out the terminal character(s), as well as lay inwards numbers to larn far unique.
It alone applies to Posts, non Pages: the alone way to influence the URL / permalink for a Page on your spider web log is to select the initial words inwards the page-title very carefully. (Ref: the deviation betwixt Posts as well as Pages)
Why should y'all bother? What words should y'all use?
Firstly, it's alone worth changing the custom words inwards your post-URL if SEO matters for your blog.If y'all remember the alter is worth it, as well as then y'all postulate to remember almost what specific words
1) accurately reverberate the content of your blog, and
2) are probable to survive the words that people search for.
Unless you're a spammer, in that place is no betoken inwards making your post service url www.myBlog/2012-07/hot-and-sexy-topic if your post service doesn't accept whatever content almost hot-and-sexy-topic. (And if y'all are a spammer, y'all may equally good larn out Blogger now, earlier y'all larn kicked off anyway.)
Leave out smaller filler words similar "the" "a" "and" - unless they are relevant to the post-contents. For illustration include "the Who" if your post service is almost the band called The Who, but larn out it out if your post service is almost the cats who tin sack fly.
Lastly, many SEO experts (self-proclaimed as well as otherwise) tell that dashes are better than dots or underscores. Only Google as well as Bing know if they'are right or not. But it's in all likelihood a goodness thought to role xxx-yy-aaaa instead of xxx_yy_aaaa or xxx.yy.aaaa, only inwards illustration they are.
Changing the post-title afterwards publication
Google's help-article almost the custom-permalink feature says:"because Blogger automatically creates the URL from data from your post service title, your URL would alter should y'all create upwards one's hear to edit the title. This would number inwards broken links, as well as fewer visitors to your blog"
This isn't the way Blogger worked before: until now, I oft published a post service alongside 1 championship using the words I wanted inwards the URL, as well as and then really apace edit it as well as alter the championship to the words I wanted inwards the title. For example, for a recent post
- the URL is
- the post-title is now: Where to larn the HTML code for pop gadgets inwards Blogger
I only tried this 1 time to a greater extent than inwards my test-blog, as well as constitute that it's even thus true: fifty-fifty if y'all alter the title, the post service URL doesn't change.
Changing the custom-URL words afterwards publication
Originally, afterwards y'all hitting the Publish push for the commencement time, in that place was no way alter the permalink: if y'all click on the Permalink pick inwards Post Settings, y'all are shown the custom value that y'all chose, but y'all cannot alter it.
However y'all tin sack now:
- Edit the post.
- Click the Revert to draft button.
- Edit the post service URL inwards the same way
as well as the URL of your post service volition survive changed. Note that if y'all produce this, the post service characteristics (view count, comments) are kept. This way that Blogger must survive associating them alongside the unchanged internal post-identifier, non the URL.
