WordPress is a very recommendable platform for blogging. No doubt about it! Yet, there are some measures that you can take to improve your search engine rankings and get even better search engine results.
The installation of “All in One SEO Pack” is a great boost to the SEO efforts in your blog and I recommend installing it:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
To increase search engine rankings of your webpages, you have to conduct a series of techniques to make sure that you’re on the right path. It’s not only doing one thing that can get you to the goals you’ve set. For instance, you cannot write a post and fill out the blanks in All in One SEO Pack and expect it to do magic to your post. A combination of various steps takes you to the top of search engine result pages.
WordPress allows you to assign categories and tags for each individual post your write. Also the title your write for your post will automatically appear in the web browsers later as your post title. These are very significant features that make life a lot easier for blogging and web content writing. However you need more and All in One SEO Pack gives you some more options.
This plugin helps you dramatically if you set it well based on your consistent blog technical management. To do so, go to the Plugin page and in front of the name of this plugin. There’s a link that says “Options Configuration Panel”. Click on it and you will be taken to a page where you can set this plugin’s features to work for you as you want.
What Options Are There in This Plugin?
I try to briefly focus on the features that you should take care of not every detail of it. Of course, as it is a great plugin, I would like to mention that you can support its developers using the donate button at this page as well.
OK, back to our work: these are the options you get here:
Home Title: It helps you write a title for the homepage of your blog or edit it.
Home Description: You can decide what you want to be the meta description of this page and to be shown by search engines. Remember that homepage is always receiving more traffic and higher search engine ranking. So, be careful in what you’re writing here. Here’s an opportunity for you to make web searchers interested or disinterested.
Home Keywords: This option allows you to set a series of main keywords for your blog’s homepage. This meta data doesn’t have the previous weight it used to have in your page’s ranking, but I still feel duty bound to say that you shouldn’t stuff it with lots of keywords.
Canonical URL: Tick this item and you won’t have to worry about the duplicate content at your blog pages while you specify your preferred version of a URL. This is very helpful when there are several similar URLs at your site as you retain your page’s link popularity and PageRank among other benefits.
Rewrite Titles: If you tick this option, the title of all pages, posts, categories, searches and archive page titles will be rewritten. This is a very useful option to make sure that all your pages have got their own unique title tags.
Use Categories for Meta Keywords: This option automatically adds the categories of your posts to the meta keywords of the same post. Tick it if you want this to be done.
Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page: This is for those of you who don’t set meta keywords manually yourselves. In such cases, All in One SEO Pack plugin sets the keywords using the words used in that post to generate meta keywords for your posts.
Use noindex for Categories: You can tick this option if you don’t want search engines to crawl the pages WordPress creates automatically when you add a category to your blog.
Use noindex for Archives: To tick this option, you show that you don’t want search engines to crawl your blog archives.
Use noindex for Tag Archive: When you choose this option to be done for you, you’ve actually agreed to exclude tag pages from being crawled by search engines.
Autogenerate Description: WordPress has got an excerpt option to let you decide what meta description your post should have. If you leave it blank, but tick this option, All in One SEO Pack will generate a meta description automatically for you.
Capitalize Category Titles: When you choose this option, the first letter of all your categories will be capitalized automatically.
Additional Post Headers: This option lets you add any snippet you want to be included at the header section of all your posts.
Additional Page Headers: This option is like the above one, but provides such opportunity for all of your pages.
Additional Home Headers: This lets you include any snippets you want only at your homepage.
