Remove category in WordPress

For me, when I build a WordPress blog one of the biggest issues I usually have with this is the way that the category URL presents itself. The normal way that a category, or sub-category, presents itself in WordPress is displayed below.

http://www.test.com/category/test-category-1/post-name.html

As you can see, the main issue is that the URL contains category in the blog post URL. This is a problem when trying to place a keyword in the URL, just after the domain name. To resolve this there is a very simple technique that can be used to remove the /category/ section in the URL.

All that is needed is to go into the back-end of WordPress and select the Permalinks option, where you can change the category base so that it reads /.

The image above shows what should be placed in the Permalinks section of the website. Once this has been completed, the Category section will be removed from the URL and this means that you new URL will look like the following:

http://www.test.com/test-category-1/post-name.html#

Removing the Category section is really useful as we can then push a keyword close to the domain name, this in turn will allow the search engines to distinguish what keywords the website is trying to push.

Dave Stopher
Natural SEO Programmer