permalink

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Permalink is a URL of a specific blog entry. It derives its name from the words "permanent link", and as you can guess from the words, permalink is permanent.

This means that this URL for a blog entry is going to stay the same even after your entry has gone into your blog archives.

Usually, permalink is a simple URL which is easy to read, remember or pass to other bloggers.

Many blog engines, like WordPress, allow you to customize permalinks structure. This way, all your posts get a permalink generated automatically, and all the permalinks of your blog follow the same generation rule.

Here is an example of permalink:

http://www.perfectblogger.com/2006/08/problogger-a-very-useful-blog/

For all you WordPress users, it's done by useing a custom template for permalinks: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

This template employed special parameters, which, when substituded by WordPress, make sure every post of yours looks just like the example I gave you:

%year% - current year
%monthnum% - current month
%postname% - the post name

For more information, please visit the Permalink - Wikipedia page.

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