One of the simplest SEO trick that many bloggers does not aware is by using a custom permalink structure for your blog. For Wordpress users, what you need to do is logging to your dashboard and adjust your setting and you on the roll.

What is Permalink?
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink. Read: Wordpress.Org

Default Setting For Your Wordpress
By default, your permalink will look someting like this:
http://example.com/?p=N

Looking the above, we can say that the link won’t be good for you if you looking to get better result in search engines, plus it look VERY UGLY indeed.
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