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After I setup a new wordpress blog, one of the first things I make sure to do is to setup what they call “pretty permalinks”. Why use them? Because they help with how your links display which can affect your blog’s overall search engine optimization techniques.

When you first install WordPress, the permalinks default to something that looks like this:

http://adultblogbuilder.com/?p=123

But we want to have the links look like this:

http://adultblogbuilder.com/wordpress/create-pretty-permalinks

So how do you do this?

1. Go to your site via FTP and temporarily chmod your .htaccess to 777. Now login to your Admin panel and activate pretty-permalinks by clicking on Settings and then Permalinks. Now select “custom structure” and type: /%category%/%postname%/

Click “Save Changes”

You’ll get a message back saying your permalink structure has been updated. If you don’t get that message, you: 1. don’t have an .htaccess page and/or 2. you didn’t chmod it to 777

After a successful update of the permalink structure, return to the domain via ftp and chmod the .htaccess back to 644. Congratulations! You’re all done with creating pretty permalinks!

If you want to know more, or have to do some troubleshooting, you can read more about the Permalinks here: Using Wordpress Permalinks