When you set up a category in wordpress such as “Search Engine Marketing Edinburgh Scotland” there is a field directly beneath the category name called the  category “slug”. This is how the URL is rewritten to your browser. You can leave this blank and wordpress will automatically create its own but its better to write your own. This makes sense for keywords in your URLS.

Using our example above the URL would be rewritten as follows:

“http://www.breezemedia.co.uk/search-engine-marketing-scotland”

However this looks a little long in the browser so in wordpress, go to edit your category and enter a shortened version of the slug such as “search-engine-marketing” and save this.

If after editing the slug and you receive a message error telleing you the category slug won’t update then there is probably another slug with the same name. In this case check the slugs in your Tags, Links and Link Categories. If you see the same slug either edit this one or choose a new name for the old slug.