SEO for Wordpress - Optimise your blog
Sep 11th, 2007 by Jason
The All in One SEO Pack is an essential Wordpress plugin. It gives you the ability to control the page titles, meta description and meta keywords as well as add a meta noindex tag to archive and category pages.
Is this important? That depends on whether you place any value on how your blog is seen by the search engines. The aspects of the page that the All in One SEO Pack gives you control over, are those aspects of the page that make it stand out as unique. In its default installation, a Wordpress blog does not give you control over these ‘inner workings’ of your site and that’s fine and well for most people.
One aspect of this plugin that does not require any effort to use is the option to add a noindex tag to archive and category pages. These pages contain snippets of original post pages and as such can be seen by the search engines as copies of the original pages. These may confuse the search engine and the wrong pages can be presented in the search engine results. This is obviously no good if you want visitors to find your pages by searching. Why would you want this? - Perhaps because you have monetized your blog, perhaps with ads. (Yes, I’m thinking about it!)
I would say that this SEO plugin ads functionality that should be in the default Wordpress install - whether you choose to use it is up to you.
Thanks for the heads up Jason. That looks like a nifty plugin. I added a meta tag plugin to my wordpress blog before, but the results where pretty unsatisfactory. I’ll definitely give this one a go.
I agree, if you are looking to monetise your blog then some consideration has to be given to your blog’s optimisation to search. I came across this pluggin and thought about installing it, but currently run individual SEO pluggins for the meta descriptions and titles of my blog, alone with a separate robots.txt file to stop some common duplicate content issues through archieve indexing.
If you find this pluggin useful I may give it a go, having one pluggin to do it all has to be an easier way of doing things.