Optimize Your WordPress Blog With All In One SEO Pack
ADVERTISEMENTSOne year back I had listed out the best plugins to optimize a WordPress blog for Search Engines, but now I would like to replace three plugins in the list with one new plugin as it does all that they do and much more.
The plugin I would like to recommend is All in One SEO Pack. This plugin optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines by letting you
- define your home page title, description and keywords
- define your post, page, category, archive, tag and search title formats
- use categories for META keywords
- avoid indexing of duplicate content (prevents indexing of category, archive and tag archive pages)
- autogenerate descriptions
Earlier I used to use Head Meta Description, SEO Title Tag and Ultimate Tag Warrior (for inserting META keywords) plugins to optimize my blog, but now since All in One SEO Pack does all that these plugin do, I uninstalled them.
All in One SEO Pack lets you easily define the META Description, Meta Keywords and Title of a post or page (see below screenshot).
Installing All in One SEO Pack on your blog is very easy - just upload, activate and edit the options that you see in the below screenshot
What I did not like about the plugin so far is that it has only the option to use categories as META keywords for the post, a better option would be to use tags (inserted with plugins like Ultimate Tag Warrior) as the keywords. While the plugin does allow to mention keywords while writing a post, it is not easy to edit all previous posts of a blog if there are too many.
I would like an option added by the plugin author to use tags as the META keywords for older posts and for newer posts I don’t mind manually defining them.
Please remember to only provide less than 10 META keywords for a post or page as stuffing keywords in your meta tags is not a good idea because it will hurt your search engine results. Also the plugin by default includes the blog title in the post, page, category, archive, tag and search title, it would be a good idea to remove it as including a lot of keywords in your title tags reduces the importance given to your main keywords. So it would be better to remove unnecessary stuff from the title tag like your blog title.
You should also consider using a robots.txt file for your blog to further optimize it for search engines.
Update: All in One SEO Pack can generate META keywords for your posts from Ultimate Tag Warrior. It had not worked for me earlier as I had disabled Ultimate Tag Warrior.
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Posted on September 26th, 2007 | Category: WordPress Plugins |
Shankar Ganesh
September 26, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I can tell that this plugin is just AWESOME
I love it, it does a great job!
Pablo
September 26, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Second posts talking about WP Plugins and i’m seeing i’m using the same as you.
Once again, i’m actually using SEO Title Tag + Head Meta Desc + UTW and i always wanted to migrate to AIO SEO Pack but had the problem with keywords on posts, i wasn’t going to edit all entries one by one.
i’ll email the author when his web goes up again and ask for that.
ArticleRow
September 26, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Hi John,
Thanks for write about this cool plugin.
I never heard before.
Thanks again for sharing.
GeeksDotCom
September 26, 2007 at 7:26 pm
yeah its a great plugin. im using it in my site
Patrix
September 26, 2007 at 8:30 pm
John,
I’ve been using the combination of the three plugins for SEO purposes but after the release of WP 2.3, UTW is redundant and Meta Keywords matter less these days but I have been impressed with the results of the SEO Title Tag.
I want to move to All in One SEO plugin but how can I keep my existing title tags that I created with the SEO Title Tag plugin? Any help would be appreciated.
Jaan
September 27, 2007 at 1:10 am
I’ve been using this since the first release, it’s a very neat plug.
However, I’ve also been trying to connect to Uberdose.com
Does anyone know what’s up with its downtime?
Patrix
September 27, 2007 at 2:00 am
Never mind. I took a leap of faith and replaced the SEO Title Tag plugin with All in One SEO plugin. The title tags used by the previous plugin were retained. So all is good.
Technojuice
September 27, 2007 at 6:11 am
Check out this tweak/hack for blogger for optimizing the Title and Meta tags ! since there are no plugins for blogger !
http://technojuice.blogspot.co.....yword.html
indyank
September 27, 2007 at 10:46 am
I will take note of this when I plan to move to wordpress…I am not researching these for the simple reason, I am not a wordpress blogger…but thanks i will bookmark this
uberdose
September 27, 2007 at 11:54 am
> Does anyone know what�s up with its downtime?
The site is back, I guess my provider had some network outages (didn’t even tell me what it was).
uberdose
September 27, 2007 at 12:15 pm
… and thanks for the review
In connection with WP 2.3 the SEO pack supports native tags as it did UTW tags.
David Bradley
September 27, 2007 at 5:30 pm
How serious is the duplication issue for Wordpress users? I thought Matt Cutts had made some remark that this was “covered” as it were.
db
ScottUA
September 27, 2007 at 9:11 pm
This is a wonderful information which i never heard. Thanks for sharing this to us. It is really useful.
uberdose
September 27, 2007 at 10:29 pm
> How serious is the duplication issue for Wordpress users?
Whenever I develop new blogs I notice that Google and other SEs are often far off giving the most relevant result. Search for “red widget”, and instead of returning the post of the *same* title Google returns the homepage where the link is, or a category or tag page.
So in essence you always have to make your content as unique as possible, and whether to let category/tag pages get indexed or not should be decided on a case-by-case basis.
David Bradley
September 27, 2007 at 11:01 pm
My site has a decent pagerank (7 last time I looked) and does well in the SERPs for my keywords, so I’m reluctant to mess around with robots.txt indirectly with a WP plugin unless there’s some valid rationale for doing so. Any further advice would be gratefully received
db
JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes
September 27, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I found out about WP-SEO plugin first, and after reading your post I think it does everyting All in one SEO Pack does - AND MORE! In face, I reviewed WP-SEO here, and I originally heard about it on mashable. I would be interested how the two Wordpress SEO plugins compare head-to-head.
Mert Erkal
September 28, 2007 at 12:29 am
Thanks for the post. To my knowledge, good content is the best SEO tool you can ever have. Thus if you write good content in 3-6 months of hardworking period,say 1 good article per day, then you are in the right track. This kind of plugins are not magical, and a beginner blogger should not rely on them. It is better to spend valuable time for good content creating instead of finding shortcuts to success. Blogging is more or less the same as running a marathon. You don’t need to start fast, just keep on running, you will at least finish the race in the long run.
Orlando
October 22, 2007 at 5:05 am
I was just wondering if there was still a benefit of using the seo pack since wordpress 2.3 was released? I use wordpress for my real estate blog and I recently notice that the in the new version they have placed keywords and title and description tags in each post.
Panwar
November 11, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Can we show sidebar tags like ultimate tag warrior by All In One SEO Pakc ?
Panwar
November 13, 2007 at 7:52 am
Today i have seen that new verion of wordpress also support adding post tags, now are these plugins are important to use ? All in One Seo and Ultimate Tag Warrior ?
John
January 8, 2008 at 5:18 pm
What is better the all in one SEO plug in or ultimate tag warrior for the latest wordpress?
Geek
February 26, 2008 at 4:20 am
A Great plugin made by the legendary Uberdose, I would say this SEO plugin is by far the best!
online making money
May 17, 2008 at 8:36 am
thanks.
for nice plugin
Steve
May 19, 2008 at 3:35 am
What I didn’t exactly understand is what the “auto generate descriptions” option does.
frank
July 29, 2008 at 9:19 pm
A Great plugin for sure