Properly Configure All-In-One-SEO Plugin for Wordpress Blogs
March 23, 2009 by Erich Mosier
Filed under Plugins
How to use ALL IN ONE SEO
All in one SEO is a great Wordpress plugin to help you with the SEO of your site. It helps you to properly configure your META tags (title, description, and keywords). By leaving your SEO up to the default Wordpress settings, you are putting yourself at a big disadvantage when considering ranking.
This tutorial will show you the proper settings and configurations for using ALL in one SEO to get the most benefit out having it installed.
After installing and activating the plugin, you will need to change some of the configurations.
If you don’t have the plugin, you can get it by going here.
To get to the configuration page, in version 2.7.1, look under SETTINGS for ALL IN ONE SEO.
The first thing you want to do is to add your Title, Description, and Keywords.
Title should be no more than 65 characters maximum in size (that includes spaces).
Your description should be a maximum of 156 characters.
And your keywords should be comma separated.
Next you want to set your title format. The default setting for ALL IN ONE SEO Title format look like this:
Remove all of the "| %blog_title%" from each line. It should now look like this:
Next you want to make sure that you check "’Use noindex for Tag archives".
This will stop Google from indexing every page that a tag is associated with. So for instance, if you have a post that has 3 tags on it, and this box wasn’t checked, Google would index a page for Tag 1, Tag 2, and Tag 3. This would then appear to Google as 3 pages with duplicate content, which as a general rule, Google doesn’t like and may hurt your chances of ranking.
That is all of the changes you need to make with ALL IN ONE SEO.
Please leave me a comment and let me know if this was useful.
