How To Use Custom Permalinks in Blogger

Use of custom permalink feature in your blogger(blogSpot) blog makes easier for search engines to find your blog posts quickly. Using of this custom permalink feature makes to create your own short words in permalink instead of generating long permalinks. You must able to know about the custom permalinks if you want to get good results from Google for better SEO. This is one of the major on-page best practices which you should use for your every post. 

What is Custom Permalink?

Normal permalinks: 

These permalinks are generated from the blog post title instead of adding by our own. It means the permalinks are normally called for your post title without your suggestion. The below example link shows how normal permalink is generated without your suggestion.

 "http://www.bloggingwala.com/2015/07/easy-way-to-find-imei-number-of-your.html"

Custom permalinks:

These types of permalinks are created by your own suggestion I mean if you want to use the custom permalinks for your blog post then there is an option in your blog post which I will describe below. View the below example of custom permalink

 "http://www.bloggingwala.com/2016/07/recover-deleted-webpages.html"

After viewing above you have got an idea what are the normal and custom permalinks right. According to the below 2 methods the custom permalinks is best because Google crawls custom permalinks fast because when ever an user searches any query it will be in short and also Google displays the top results which have short permalinks. So you may come to know why custom permalink is better to use and also can give good results in search engine.

How to use custom permalinks for your Blogger blog?

Custom permalinks option is available in every post in blogger but once you publish your post you can’t able to edit your permalink again. If you are new then want to use how permalinks work then first go to your blogger dashboard and click on new post and after  adding the post title you are ready to add the custom permalinks it is at the right side of your post. Click on Post Settings-> Links -> Add your own custom permalink.

To use custom permalink for your every blog post you should know about keyword research. The researching high quality keywords using google keyword planner and Google trends makes you easy to find hot keywords which appear in search engine. 

Every time keyword research wont’ win your game because the post keywords which not available every time in the keyword planner. So just you should learn how to use short words in your permalinks. Mainly newbies make mistake to use the normal permalinks and also not able to find the right keywords for your posts. Simply I will explain how you can use custom permalinks for your blog posts.  

Here we go for example your blog post generated normal permalink like this

"www.example.blogspot.com/yy/mm/how-to-create-your-free-blog-in-blogger-blogspot.html"

The above one is generated normally so we can change to the custom permalink like how-to-create-BlogSpot-blog which is able to crawl easily by google and other search engines.

Presently you can use [-][_] [A-Z][a-z][0-1] characters in the custom permalink but my suggestion is don’t use underscore in custom permalinks it is not an good option.