SEO friendly Internal links in Draft posts

[westerdaled]

Hi

I am writing a post which has an intro section with a TOC.

I read somewhere that the internal links need to be formatted like this for SEO engines

<li><a href="http://myblog.dan/cloud/why-working-with-css-uses-up-hours-of your-life/#item-one">Item One</a></li>

Unfortunately, the above link cannot be tested in preview mode as in my case my the url i see in my child theme looks like this

http://myblog.dan/?p=123&preview=true

old style still works of course but not so SEO friendly ;-(

<li><a href="#item-one">Item One</a></li>

Hence, as anyone found a strategy for resolving this - maybe a neat shortcode trick

[scoe]

Hi Westerdaled,

The slug under the title will become the URL. So on the page you are linking to, make sure that slug under the post title has important keywords and is not too long. After editing the slug, be sure to click OK AND then click update on the page as well.

If you are developing on a live site, you have to use preview urls. If you are interested in working on a private staging site in WordPress, you can publish all the links and it makes life easier. You can use https://serverpress.com/ or other similiar ways of having wordpress on your desktop. If you are working closely with others you'll want a staging site online. Who is your current host?

Also, if you generate a sitemap for your site, you can check that all your urls are SEO friendly. To create a sitemap you can read, you can create a page and assign it the archive template. Alternatively, you use: http://www.web-site-map.com/ [I have no relation to this site.]

Hope this helps,

-- Sheryl

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