Create a Search Engine Friendly Archives Page for Your Wordpress Blog

Published by Joseph Ferrara February 2nd, 2008 in Blogging Tips.

This Wordpress plugin is designed to display all your archived posts in a clean, easy to read and search engine friendly dedicated Archives page.

What’s cool is your readers can open each month’s archive with a click. AJAX opens the month to reveal each dated Post Title (which links to the post) and the number of comments. See what the Archive Page looks like and how it works here.

Download the SRG Clean Archives Plug in here. Once uploaded to the server, activate the plug in from the WP Admin Plugin Management. You can also update the Archive settings from Admin:

To create your separate Archives page, go to Create a Page and insert this code in the body: <!–srg_clean_archives–>

Click Publish and Bam! you’re done. Nice clean Archives.

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8 Responses to “Create a Search Engine Friendly Archives Page for Your Wordpress Blog”

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1 Brad Nix Feb 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 pm

I have been using SRG Clean archives for almost a year now and absolutely love the functionality and clean interface!
2 Jay Thompson Feb 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm

I’ve been using it too. Tried a bunch, this one is the best.
3 Joseph Ferrara Feb 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm

Yes, indeed. Archives is one of the negatives of blogs. Posts drift down into archive limbo and are rarely raised up. Hopefully archive pages like these will encourage readers to look further into your index of posts.
4 Missy Caulk Feb 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 am

Sounds great, I’ll call you if I can’t figure it out.:)
5 Dave Smith Feb 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Configure this plugin for your sidebar as well as an archive page and you have created an internal linking structure where every post links to every other post.
6 Joseph Ferrara Feb 3rd, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Thanks for that tip, Dave.