We're particularly excited about this feature because it's one of the top SEO requests from customers. For those of you that don’t know, SEO stands for “search engine optimization”, which is the process of improving your blog’s page rank within search result pages. Whether you want to use filenames for SEO purposes or you just want more control over your filenames, we've now made it easy for you to edit the URLs of your posts.
Previously in TypePad, the filename of your post was automatically generated
when the post was first saved (either as draft or when published). The filename
generated was based on the 'originating' title of the post. Thus even if
you edited the title of the post, the filename would always remain the same. Those of you who often save use drafts understand what a big pain it is to not be able to edit those 'temporary' URLs that you had in draft.
Now you can specify the filename of the post while you’re in Compose, as well as edit the filename of the post anytime afterwards. Additionally you can edit old and new post filenames. If you’ve edited page filenames in the past, this feature will work in exactly the same way.
Test the feature
You will need to select Filename from Display Options within Compose. Try it out on various types of posts:
- Both new and old posts
- Blank and weird character filenames
- Filenames already in use will be saved as "example-1.html"
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like, what you don't like or if you found anything confusing or hard to
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