All In One SEO

WordPress Plugin Recommendation – All In One SEO

Automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines
(Search Engine Optimization).

This is a great plugin and considered essential in our book of WordPress goodies.  Having a good title, along with the proper meta tags in your source code, is important when it comes to people finding your pages when searching with Google or Yahoo.  It allows you to have a title that appears in the top of your browser that is more descriptive then what the title of the post is.  Your blogs post title can be general but your title tag can be more specific.  Plus it helps if your theme has a small sidebar and you make titles only big enough to fit. Your title tag can be longer.  It also creates a description out of the beginning text of your post and adds keywords that match your tags.  All your pages are different to the indexing robots and thats a good thing.  It will do everything automatically but the great part is you can also tweak each individual tag as you create or edit a post or page.

FROM  THE AUTHOR’S WEBSITE

Here’s how the author describes the plugin’s use…..

How to use it

Here is a list of the most important on-page ranking factors and how they are addressed by this WordPress SEO plugin. You might want to visit Options – All in One SEO to tweak the default options.

• Titles
  The text that you see in your browser’s window bar is the most important thing *on* your page. Make sure your titles are getting rewritten and the important stuff (your post titles) always come before anything else. You can leave a few words from your blog title to do some branding but don’t overdo. If your post titles don’t contain your most precious phrases you want to rank for then tweak them. Leave the post titles as it is but change the meta title.
• Descriptions
  Once your pages rank in search engines your description (aside of course from your title) makes a potential visitor want to click through, or not. It’s mta descriptions, believed dead by many people, that decide over your site’s fate. If you don’t want to invest the time and write a description for every post at least let them be auto-generated. This vastly better than the usual “Share This … Posted on … under …” description that is often used. The preferred source for your post description is your post excerpt. Use this when you want to tweak your description.
• Keywords
  All in One SEO Pack can generate them from your categories (this was the old way of tagging your posts in wordpress) or from Ultimate Tag Warrior or, starting with WordPress 2.3, the built-in tagging system. Using your categories is optional, the rest is auto-detected and used if there. WP 2.3.x tags are the preferred keyword source.
• Duplicate Content
  You can have “noindex” and the like generated for archive-, category- and tag pages if you seem to have trouble with duplicate content.

Installation is a breeze.  Just upload the package to your plugins folder and activate it in your dashboard.  It does have an options area that lets you adjust different things but the defaults work just fine and the author knows more about it then most of us.

Questions or comments welcome!

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