Search Engine Optimization with All in One SEO Plugin
All in One SEO is a popular WordPress plugin for search engine optimization.
It is a very simple and effective SEO plugin. Basically the All in One SEO will add all the missing features from your WordPress installation to make your website rank well in search, and help search engines easily discover and index your pages, images, and other content.
Installation and Configuration Steps:
Here are the steps on how to install and configure the All in One S.E.O Pack plugin.
If you would like to automatically perform search engine optimization on your WordPress, All in One S.E.O Pack is the plugin you would need to use.
Step 1
From your dashboard, go to plugins. Click Add New.
Step 2
In search box, type in “All in One S.E.O Pack”.
Step 3
Click on Install Now. Once installed, click Activate Plugin.
Now let’s change the most important settings for the best search engine optimization results.
Step 4
Still on your dashboard, go to All in One S.E.O and then General Settings.
Step 5
If you’ve already made a donation, select I enjoy this plugin and have made a donation.
Step 6
Enable Canonical URLs to give permanent links to individual articles in your site.
Step 7
Keep Use Original Title disabled.
Step 8
Enable Log Important Events if you want to.
Step 9
Enter title for your homepage using catchy words and your site most important keyword. This should be 60 characters or less.
Step 10
Type in a brief description of your website. Include in your main keywords. Limit the text to fewer than 152 characters.
Step 11
In the Home Keywords field, enter 5 to 10 keywords that best describe your website.
Step 12
Keep Use Keywords enabled.
Step 13
To allow the plugin to automatically use tags and categories as keywords also, enable Use Categories for META Keywords and Use Tags for META Keywords.
Step 14
If you are using a static homepage and a separate page to display your blog posts, enable Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts. This allows the plugin to generate a list of keywords based on posts appearing on the posts page.
Step 15
Set the default title format for every page by enabling Rewrite Titles, Capitalize Titles and Capitalize Category Titles.
Step 16
If your theme uses Custom Post Types, enable SEO for Custom Post Types.
Step 17
If your site is a video blog, check Enable Advanced Options.
Step 18
To customize the edit.php screen, set Show Column Labels for Custom Post Types options.
Step 19
Check Display Menu In Admin Bar and Display Menu At The Top for easy access to settings from the dashboard.
Step 20
To verify your site, enter your webmaster verification code from Google, Bing and Pinterest.
Step 21
Fill out your Google Plus Profile URL and click Connect With Google Analytics.
Step 22
Add your Google Analytics ID to get vital metrics on traffic.
Step 23
To stop search engines from indexing your category and archive pages, keep enabled Use Noindex for Categories, Date Archives and Author Archives. Leave unchecked Use noindex for Tag Archives and Search Page.
Step 24
Leave Advanced Settings at default since you’ll be optimizing every new post manually.
Step 25
When done, click Update Options.
That’s all for the general settings. Now, every time you publish a new post, make sure you manually enter a search engine optimization title, description and keywords.
Please note, that advance users may use different settings then what we are showing in our videos. If you prefer a different set up or know of any new tips and tricks in the customization of the All in One SEO plug in, please share it with us.
