This plugin, All In One SEO Pack, is one that I have been wanting to try out a few weeks ago because it makes certain changes in order to optimize the blog in some SEO points. Well I have to admit that I tested before in the Spanish Binary Ant and I’m totally happy with the results. The necessity of a plugin like this comes from the policy adopted by WordPress developers about Meta tags. The default WordPress installation does not include any Meta components like Meta Tags or Meta Description.

What are Meta Tags? These are lines of code that provide additional information to the search engines. Meta Tag for Keywords is something like:

<meta name="keywords" content="business, entrepeneur, solutions, development" />

and it indicates which are the keywords for the website.

Meta Tag for Description can be something like this:

<meta name="description" content="John Smith's Company provides solutions in
web development." />

and it provides to search engines a description they can use to associate with your website when is part of the result of a search. There are more tags but these two are enought, at least in this post. Are they necessary? Meta Tag for Description is recommended because if you don’t have it the search engine will take the first words that appear in your web as a description. And Meta Tag for Keywords depends on the search engine. Some put more value on it than others, but it takes you only few seconds to put it and also provides more information so I can’t think in a reason for not using it. Having said that let’s continue.

To solve this lack of Meta Tags in WordPress I investigated various plugins until I reached the conclusion that this is most valuable for solving this problem and also it gives solution to other points. The solutions offered by All In the SEO Pack are:

1. Meta Tags for Keywords and Description for your home page,categories, articles…
2. Optimizing titles (in terms of SEO), eliminating unnecessary words of the title and giving preference to the title of the article opposite the name of your blog. It decrease the number of words in the title of the page to give greater value to each, and it locates first the title of the article. Perhaps it’s a bit fuzzy. One example, first the original title and second the optimized one:

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3. Control of duplicated content by the use of “noindex” modifiers in categories and archives.

The installation as simple as ever:

1. Download and unpack the plugin on your computer.
2. Upload to the plugins folder on your server.
3. Activate it.

And the access to the configuration is through the path Settings> All In One SEO Pack. The configuration options are simple and the control panel for this plugin is quite clear. It is a very highly recommended plugin.

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