How to edit the blog post link in Blogspot

Let's see how we can manually edit a link of a blog post. This is important when we write a new post. But it's also important when we need to edit an older post, one that was already published.

But why is this important? Well, simply put because Google cares about it. Search engines in general and Google, in particular, tend to focus their attention on long links. But those links must contain significative keywords, not just "filling".

In other words, if your link contains a lot of “or”, “and”, “etc”, exclamations and empty numbers, it will not be good for SEO.

The link should more or less “mirror” the title of the post and also, the major keywords of that particular post. The title (ideally) already contains the keywords. So the link should be created according to it.

But there are moments when, for some reasons, you have to change the title of the post. In that case, can you change the link of that particular post?

Well, if it's already an old and established post then is not advisable. Other websites link back to you and if you change even one character in your link, then the visitors will get an error and your blog will suffer.

But if your blog post is not published yet or it was published recently but the blog is brand new and is not well-known yet, then you can modify the link.

Let me exemplify that to you by using one of my other blogs. It's brand new and it's not yet known. So if I do some major modifications to it, Google wouldn't care. (Being new and unknown has its perks.) 😃

Please look at the below picture.

As you can see, the link in the address bar looks different than the title of the blog. Why? Because when I posted that blog, I was too rushed and clicked "Publish" before writing the title. As a result, Blogspot automatically created the link by using the first words from the first paragraph.

I'll make use of this occasion to show you how to solve this problem.

So how can you edit the blog post link in your Blogspot/Blogger blog? 

First, log into your Blogspot account, then choose your blog from the top-left list and then go to the Posts. After that, click to edit the post.

 

Now, on the right side of the screen, you can click on the Links symbol. Thus you can see how the link looks now. As we know, it shows the first words of the first paragraph.

But for now, you can just see it. In order to be able to edit it, you have to turn the already published post back to the draft. Note: this will make the post become invisible.

Now you can see that the link can be edited. There is the option to automatically create it and also the option to customize it.

Now you can customize it by manually editing the link.

Or, like in my case, you can choose to automatically create the link and then Save it. Now you can see that the link is modified and it now copies the headline of the post.

Now you can Publish again your post. 

Now it's live again. You can check on the post. The new link resembles to the headline.

That should be all! I hope it's useful for you as much as it was for me.