Please help, what am I doing wrong? SEO friendly pages

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    moiraesfate · Member ·

    Can I please get some help?

    When I created the wordpress account, the original permalink structure was

    mydomain.com/?p=123

    The wordpress file is titled index so I have the redirect set that typing mydomain.com will automatically go to mydomain.com/index

    To make it more SEO friendly, I tried to change the permalink structure so that its

    mydomain.com/index/%category%/%postname%/

    and I tried

    mydomain.com/%category%/%postname%/

    Both of those result in the same thing. Clicking on any of the links in the menu bar gets a 404 page not found result.

    I’ve even tried saving all my information, and deleting all the pages, then redoing them. It didn’t help.

    What am I doing wrong? Should I remove the redirect?

    Domain is in-silentio-noctis.com

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    supportbot · Member ·

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    auxclass · Member ·

    To make it more SEO friendly, I tried to change the permalink structure so that its

    mydomain.com/index/%category%/%postname%/

    and I tried

    mydomain.com/%category%/%postname%/

    Means the first thing you are doing wrong is posting in the wrong forum:

    The site you are asking about does not seem to be hosted on WordPress.COM so you need to make friends over at WordPress.ORG the keepers of the software you are using.

    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1

    This site is for support of sites hosted on WordPress.COM. You should address your questions to WordPress.ORG the keepers of the software you are using: http://wordpress.org/support/

    For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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