Yahoo Small Business Websites – Permanent Links Problem

Yahoo Company is providing very cheap web hosting at 2000 Rs in India . In Advertisement they are saying , there is no limitation for Bandwidth , Email Id , Memory Etc ...  I have also bought the small business plan for my site . I faced some problems

1. Email ID limited to 100
2. Sub Domains are limited to 1000
3. Storage Space is only 5GB [ Based on Request , This may be increased ! ]
4. We can not create permanent links for our post when we use blogging softwares  like Word press
5. No Access for .htaccess file  [ So we can't install Drupal in Yahoo small business ]
6. No SSH [ Secure Shell ] Service

I could not find any alternate solution for SSH service  and .htaccess file . but i found one solution for permanent link which is useful for search engine optimisation . Lets get in to the problem first . When you use word press software , By default each and every post will be represented by numbered link.

For Example  :   http://www.rajarajan.in/?p=10

http://www.pradeepkumar.org/?p=362

These links are not indexed properly while search engines crawl your site. You need to assign proper name for every posts . you can follow the following standard procedure for assigning name for your post

Naming Post Links [Click Image To Enlarge

1. Day and name     http://www.openpeta.com/2009/05/25/sample-post/
2. Month and name     http://www.openpeta.com/2009/05/sample-post/
3. Numeric     http://www.openpeta.com/archives/123
4. Custom Structure

Here the problem is coming ,  when you change default to other in word press , The links will not work because of .htaccess problem with Yahoo small Business. But you can do one alternate thing to assign the permanent link to your posts. Just add index.php after the main url  or link.

Custom Permanent Links [Click Image To Enlarge

For Example

1. Day and name     http://www.openpeta.com/index.php/2009/05/25/sample-post/
2. Month and name     http://www.openpeta.com/index.php/2009/05/sample-post/
3. Numeric     http://www.openpeta.com/index.php/archives/123
4. Custom Structure   /index.php/%postname%/

Then all links  will work properly , If you find some solutions to these problems , please post your solutions through comments of this page.