Feb 13 2008
SEO Plugin for WordPress
There are so many plugins when it comes to a WordPress blog. I use a few but one of the most important ones that I use for all my blogs is the All in One SEO Pack. As I mentioned in previous post, there are many things that are important when it comes to making your site ready for the search engines. However, to do some of them in WordPress requires you to do some template modification.
With the Seo Plugin, this is not necessary. This plugin will automatically install meta tags and descriptions for every post based off you tags and your posts. You can of course tweak this to your own descriptions but if you do not want to take the time, it will be done automatically.
The other cool feature of this plugin is that it will prevent your articles from being duplicated in the search engines. You can have categories, archives, tag clouds marked as not indexed which means the search engines will not follow the links and they will not be indexed more than once. This prevents problems with possible duplicate content penalties from the search engines.
All in all, if you have the ability and time to do all the work yourself, I recommend you change the template and do it the exact way you want. However, if like me, you have no interest in changing codes or messing with the template, this is the plugin for you. It can be used as is or can be tweaked to your needs. It is well worth adding it to your plugins and best of all it is free.
Just remember Search Engine Optimization is never done. You will always need to work harder to be number one. This plugin is just a small step in to building a number one blog.
