Permalinks are the format in which your blog posts are organized.  There are several different options you can choose from in your Settings > Permalinks section and you can also have a custom setting.  This is what your dashboard will look like:

PermalinksAs you can see you have a large list of options to choose from.  The default setting is very messy and for purposes of Search Engine Optimization we don’t want it to be that way, as Google likes things that are nice and organized.  The other choices wordpress gives you are not as bad but they leave things a little less organized than our custom structure.

With Category then Post Name this makes everything in your blog very logical and easy to find and follow.  This is the way Google likes to see your permalinks and we suggest that you do this.  Of course if you are not interested in Google you may put them as you wish, but unless you have a very specific reason to have them otherwise, it would be wise to keep them well organized.

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