02 Oct 08 Search Engine Optimization for your Wordpress

SEO is one of the most important thing to achieve when you want massive traffic, regular visitors and get listed in major search engines.

With using wordpress, you have a privilege to enable your SEO all-in-one plugin in a matter of minutes. So, what is the catch? Okay, here are the advantages to have installed on your wordpress blog. To quote from the authors.. All-in-1 SEO can offer the following:

Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
Generates META tags automatically
Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
For Wordpress 2.3 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
You can fine-tune everything
Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

Well, basically, the plug-in will do all the work for you. But if you like to fine tuning to make it even better, there you have complete control over it. That is the beauty of wordpress. Especially when you have self-hosted server.

Please download All in One SEO Pack here… credits to (The Authors) hallsofmontezuma, uberdose

The minimum wordpress version you require to install is 1.5.xxx and this current installation is compatible up to 2.6.2.

And here is the installation process.

Unzip/upload into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. If you’re uploading it make sure to upload the top-level folder. Don’t just upload all the php files and put them in /wp-content/plugins/.
Please Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress, as usual.
Visit your SEO options/settings (Options – All in One SEO) for Wordpress 2.3.x, (Settings – All in One SEO) for Wordpress 2.5.x
That’s it! You are now ready to roll.

And for future upgrades, please use the built-in one-click updater (Options – All in One SEO). If you have to upgrade manually simply repeat the installation steps.

Well Done, now your blog is search engine optimized. Make sure you modify in SEO settings with relevant keywords and META… And hope to see you increase and Google PageRank, Alexa ranking and getting massive web traffic to your blog/site.

I personally love this plug-in, because it makes our wordpress bloggers lives so much easier. So, It is important that you get to install in yours in order to get more hits, higher page ranking and search visibility.

Any suggestions and comments are always welcome, THANKS for reading.