SEO for Wordpress
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I am sure you have been asked this many times...
What is the BEST Wordpress Plug-in for SEO - Easy to Title Page, Meta Tags, etc... ??
Thanks
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I'm not sure if Yoast is more complicated I have not used it - anyone with experience with both?
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We use the following SEO Plugins for WordPress:
- All in One SEO Pack
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Inbound Writer (< This is great)
- Broken Link Checker
- Scribe SEO <- This is awesome).
- SEO Smart Links
I highly recommend Scribe SEO.
It's pretty cheap, but does a great job - especially if you have internal staff who write blogs for you.
I just tell me staff to hit 90%+ and then review the blogs.
And the all in One SEO Pack, is still without a debt the best SEO plugin for WordPress!
- Paul.
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I have used Head Space 2 for yrs on several blogs and it has done a great job for me.
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Thanks for your suggestion "Yoast"....I'll test the Speed of Page loading too.....and maybe adjust..
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Thanks for your suggestion of "All in one SEO" ,,,, Also looking at "Yoast"... (IS "Yoast"..more complicated then All in One...??
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Thanks for your suggestion of "Yoast"...also loking at All in One SEO..
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Thanks for your suggestion of "All in one SEO" Also looking at.. "Yoast"...
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Thanks for your suggestion of "All in one SEO" I'm also looking at "Yoast"...
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Thanks for your suggestion of "All in one SEO" or "Yoast"...
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Thanks for your suggestion "Yoast"...
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Thanks for your suggestion of "All in one SEO" or "Yoast"...
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A few things I like about Yoast that All in one doesn't do:
- It has some minification options to help with page load speed - as well as integration with Google Page Speed.
- It includes an xml sitemap creator that allows you to include images
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I use All-in-One as everyone is pointing out here. BUT I also use a tool that keeps me on track with my SEO called SEOPressor. It costs some cash but its worth it.
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Yoast is pretty good but the last update seems to have stuffed up some sitemaps and stripping out the categories from url seems to create some issues as well. ( there could be an update soon that fixes those ) So just be careful of those thing when you have a 3rd party plugin to handle your onpage SEO .
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If you're new to SEO I would recommend 'All in One SEO'
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Wordpress SEO is the best. It truly is a "All-in-One" solution and I'm pretty sure you don't have to pay for certain features ?
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I was using All-In-One SEO. I just switch to Yoast. It is very good. You can go wrong with neither.
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I would strongly suggest Yoast (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)
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"all in one SEO" and "Yoast" are great plugins
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-seo-wordpress-plugins.html
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