WordPress: Automatically Remove Short Words In URL For Better SEO

According to Matt Cutts's answer in his interview at Pubcon, for good SEO, the URL should contains 3-5 words. If there are more than 5 words, Google's algorithms typically will just weight those words less and just not give you as much credit. So, we should keep our URL as short as possible, and remove all unwanted words.

Usually the short words in URL (with number of character not greater than 3) are not very good for SEO, and they often contain stop words like 'a', 'an', 'the', etc. They should be removed from the URL for better SEO. In WordPress, we can do it automatically without any plugin.

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• Category: Hints and Tips
• Tags: seo, short, URL, words