WordPress Wednesday - All in One SEO Plugin
I just realized that I missed last weeks WordPress Wednesday. How could you let me get away with that? This week, I’ll go over a very useful plugin to help you with Search Engine Optimization, the “All in one SEO plugin.” I’ll give you 3 guesses as to what this WordPress plugin will help you accomplish.
- Help you hunt water buffalo’s with a snow shovel.
- Help you find the perfect birthday present for your significant other.
- Help you optimize your blog to improve your search engine organic traffic.
If you chose option 2, women like jewelry and men like video games.
If you chose option 3, you are right on the money. Now on to the details. . .
This plugin is installed just like the majority of plugins, by ftp’ing the all-in-one-seo-pack to your plugins folder and enabling it in your WordPress management console. Once enabled, start by configuring its options.
Home Title
As the name implies, this will be the title of your homepage. This is independent of any other option. If not set, the default blog title will get used. You can see my home title by looking in the title bar of your browser where you will see my title of: BlissLogs - where blog learning meets blog teaching
Home Description
The META description for your homepage. Independent of any other options, the default is no META description at all if this is not set.
Home Keywords
A comma separated list of your most important keywords for your site that will be written as META keywords on your homepage. Don’t stuff everything in here.
After setting these options site-wide, you can next optimize your individual posts. While writing a post, customize the page title to include some keywords you want those search engines to find your site with. Not only do you need to put those keywords in your post title, put them in the keyword field as well. Doing so will add them to your meta tags and help your site get found by search engines. One option that is often overlooked in this plugin is the “optional exerpt” section.
Optional Exerpt
This is where you tell Google what to display when someone gets a preview of your post on their Google search. Enter something catchy here to get the searcher to visit your site.
I haven’t even touched on every SEO option that this plugin covers so my recommendation is to install and use it immediately. If you want to learn more WordPress tips, subscribe to BlissLogs and read them daily.
Posted on August 15, 2007
By Jason Spence
Filed Under WordPress |
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I totally recommend the All in One SEO pack plugin. I’ve had my search engine traffic almost triple by using it.
This is really nice plugin, I too use it for all my WP blogs. Recommended