• Monday, December 14th, 2009
You want your WordPress powered site to rank well, right? Like most site owners you have probably read dozens of blogs, and more “Top 10 SEO tips for WordPress”, or perhaps “Must Have WordPress Plugins” posts than you care to remember. The only problem is that many of these articles just say you have to install the plugins, not how to use them. I’ll admit that I am as much at fault as anyone else. Here’s the problem; while some plugins require little or no configuration, and even less on-going attention – All in one SEO pack is not one of them. Miss a check box or ignore a field and you could be doing more harm than good – your site rankings could drop faster than Wile E. Coyote holding an Acme umbrella.
This post will be updated from time-to-time when there are significant updates to the plugin. Items that are new to this post will be bolded. Additionally, I’ll mark items that could be detrimental to your rankings with a caution sign .
Updated on 12/14/2009 – The version currently being covered is 1.6.8.2.
Version 1.6.8.2 contains some unknown updates so that it will be ready for WordPress.2.9, also the developer has made a “pro” version available for purchase. As far as I can see the there are no functional differences between the two versions. The pro version is intended for use by hosting companies and consultants who do not want the donation request displayed on the configuration page of their clients.
Visit the SEO pack creator’s page for a complete change log.
All in one SEO Pack Configuration – site settings
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• Thursday, June 04th, 2009
Are you struggling to rank well in a competitive industry?
I know, I know. Who isn’t? Video can help.
I’ll assume you have completed an SEO site audit looking for ways to improve your on-site optimization and are seeking out quality back-links to improve your off-site presence. If not, well, video can still help – but you REALLY need to make sure you do these steps too.
Video has long been known to rank well in the search engines, and thanks to universal search its done even better in the last year or so. If you are not familiar with universal search, in a nutshell it means that Google (or the other top engines) search all of their indexes for possible results to your query and return the top entries for web, news, video, images and local on one page. Getting your content returned by more than one of these indexes GREATLY increases the likelihood of your link(s) being clicked. Web video is one of the easiest to create and get indexed.
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• Monday, March 16th, 2009
Wow!
That’s the word for day two – just WOW!
For me day two was more about meeting great people and learning about great tools than anything else.
Of course the highlight for the day was that Rhea Drysdale (@Rhea) decided it was safe to follow me on Twitter, even though every time she looked over her left shoulder, there I was. It was really great to meet you Rhea!
Matt Cutts of Google fame also chatted with a few of us about his recent weight loss success and shared his secret to success. It’s hard to believe, but apparently if you exercise and eat more fruits and vegetables, it’s good for you. Who knew?
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• Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
That is an excellent question. One which is asked (and debated) as often by experienced SEOs and Web designers as it is by people new to the industry.
The keywords meta-tag was created when the web was young to help site designers let engines know what a Web site was all about, and it worked well. Too well. Early SEOs started abusing the system by stuffing them with popular search terms that were not at all related to the current page to drive up rankings and page views. The search engineers figured this out pretty quickly and either decreased the importance of the tag, or ignored it completely. more…
