Amending blog post url

Naomi Crain

I'm finding that altering the Permalink on the blog creation page isn't actually changing the URL being used via the website. How can I change the urls to be what I want them to be?
Example: https://www.naomicraincoaching.com/blog/17-Living-with-Ease---Possible-dream-or--tell-him-he-s-dreaming--.html
I would rather this be ..../blog/Living-with-Ease.html

Wassim

Hi, you can't but the canonical URL which will be the indexed one is the permalink you define

Naomi Crain

Thanks for your reply Wassim. I don't know what you mean by canonical URL - can you explain or point me toward info in the help library about that?

Wassim

It's a meta tag in your page telling the search engine what is the real URL of the page (to avoid duplicates),

We add it automatically
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls