I had an interesting debate with Alex from soleredemption.com last night about how permalinks affect they way Google index blog pages. He argued that dynamic links are useless, that pages with links like this http://soleredemption.com/?p=20 aren’t being properly indexed by Google. I didn’t have much to say but I did read something about that ages ago, and I’ve always kept all my URLs with permalinks, or permanent links.

If you use WordPress, you can do this easily by chmod-ing your .htaccess file to 666, then from your WP control panel, go to Options - Permalinks and enable permalinks from there by copying-and-pasting the sample structure on that page into the provided field.

Google usually takes a few days if not weeks to come by and crawl your pages. So after you enable permalinks on your blog give it some time to sink and soon you’ll get that extra traffic from Google directly into your archive pages.

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