Once you have created a page or post in WordPress it gives you a suggested URL based on your title. You can change this at any time by doing the following.

 Open your page or post in WordPress to edit it.

 Click the Edit button next to your permalink or URL.

 Make any changes to your URL. You can not make changes to the base part of your URL which is your domain. This is fixed. It is simply the address of the page or post that your are editing here.

 Click OK once you have made your changes.

 Click on Update to save changes to your page/post.

10 tips on creating good URLs

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A URL is the address of your web page. It can be hard to know what you should put for your URL and how to make it search engine friendly, so here are 10 tips on creating good URLs.

1. Always use lower case.

   The server your website sits on can sometimes handle uppercase URLÔÇÖs differently and could show the user a ÔÇÿpage not foundÔÇÖ page. Best stick to having all lower case to avoid this.
   

2. Keep it short

   A URL should have about 50-60 characters according to Google. However, they wonÔÇÖt penalise you in your website rankings if itÔÇÖs longer. Also long URLÔÇÖs are difficult to cut and paste.
   

3. Match to your page title

   Try and match your URL to the title of the page. It this then obvious to a visitor what the page is about.

4. Leave out stop words

   Examples of stop words are; and, or, of, but, the, a. You donÔÇÖt have to put these in, they donÔÇÖt improve the URL and it just makes it longer.

5. Safe characters

   The only safe characters to use in a URL are: ┬á┬á_ – ┬á. + ! * ÔÇÖ ( ) ┬ádo not use any other characters.
   

6. Make it easy to say

   Try and make your URL logical and easy to say. It gets complicated when you have relay every dash, slash and dot. Although slashes and dots are unavoidable in URLS.

7. Not too many sub folders

   Inserting the page into many sub folders can make the URL too long.
   

8. Add keywords

   Add keywords into your URL, it helps with being indexed properly and it clearly states what the page is about.

9. DonÔÇÖt repeat keywords

   Repeating keywords is something that search engines frown upon.
   

10. Make it readable

    You may have many pages to your website and start giving each page numbers, but who is going to remember a load of numbers? Make sure the URL is readable for humans.
    

    How to change your URL

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