Personally, I use Genesis Theme Framework for all my blogs. It is very easy to do the Genesis SEO settings. However, if you are not using Genesis, then you need to use a SEO plugin. All in One SEO Pack is one of best SEO plugins out there. Here are the steps to perform best general settings, title settings, home page settings, keywords settings, custom post types settings, display settings, webmaster verification settings, Google settings, Noindex settings, and advanced settings for All in One SEO Pack WordPress plugin:
1) After activating All in One SEO Pack WordPress plugin in your blog. Go to: All in One SEO Pack –> General Settings.
2) Under General Settings:
a) Canonical URLs: Check this option. It will automatically generate Canonical URLS for your WordPress blog and it will help to prevent duplicate content penalties by Google.
b) Use Original Title: Check option “Disabled”. If you enable this wp_title be used to set the title. It is better to disable this option as it might be conflicting with other plugins.
c) Log important events: Check this option. It is used for creating a log of important events. Log will be created in all_in_one_seo_pack.log. You need to make sure that this directory is writable (CHMOD directory to 777).
3) Home Page Settings: Enter the “Home Title”, “Home Description”, and “Home Keywords (comma separated)” by researching the keywords.
4) Under Keyword Settings:
a) Use Keywords: Check option “Enabled”. By checking this option you can change meta keywords in your blog.
b) Use Categories for META keywords: Check this option. This option will also use categories as META keywords for a post along with other keywords and tags.
c) Use Tags for META keywords: Check this option. This option will also use tags as META keywords for a post along with other keywords and tags.
d) Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page: Check this option. This option will dynamically generate keywords on a custom posts page. You can set it up in options –> reading). If unchecked, it will use the keywords set in the edit page section for the posts page.
5) Title Settings:
a) Rewrite Titles: Check option “Enabled”. When you select this option titles are rewritten as per the rules you mention below.
b) Capitalize Titles: Check this option. It will make the first letter of each word capitalized for search page and tag page titles.
c) Capitalize Category Titles: Check this option. It will make the first letter of each word capitalized for category page titles.
d) Page Title Format: Enter: %page_title%
e) Post Title Format: Enter: %post_title%
f) Category Title Format: Enter: %category_title%
g) Archive Title Format: Enter: %date%
h) Tag Title Format: Enter: %tag%
i) Search Title Format: Enter: %search%
j) Description Format: Enter: %description%
k) 404 Title Format: Enter: %404_title%
l) Paged Format: Enter: %page%
6) Custom Post Type Settings: Check “Enabled” if you are using custom post type on your blog for gallery, testimonials or portfolio sections.
7) Display Settings:
a) Show Column Labels for Custom Post Types: Check option “Posts” and “Pages”. This will enable SEO options on edit posts and edit pages section.
b) Display Menu In Admin Bar: Check this option. This will enable settings menu in admin menu bar.
c) Display Menu At The Top: Check this option. This will enable settings menu at the top of your WordPress Dashboard.
8) Webmaster Verification:
a) Google Webmaster Tools: Enter your Google Webmaster Tools verification code in the field to add a meta tag to your homepage to verify your site.
b) Bing Webmaster Center: Enter your Bing Webmaster Center verification code in the field to add a meta tag to your homepage to verify your site.
c) Pinterest Site Verification: Enter your Pinterest Site verification code in the field to add a meta tag to your homepage to verify your site.
9) Google Settings:
a) Google Plus Default Profile: Enter your Google Plus Profile URL in the field to link your site to Google Plus.
b) Disable Google Plus Profile: Leave this option. If you check this option then Google Plus Profile will be disabled in your site.
c) Google Analytics ID: You can enter your Google Analytics ID in the field to enable Google Analytics tracking.
10) Noindex settings:
a) Use noindex for Categories: Check this option. This will exclude category pages from being crawled by search engines. This option is useful for avoiding duplicate content.
b) Use noindex for Archives: Check this option. This will exclude archive pages from being crawled by search engines. This option is useful for avoiding duplicate content.
c) Use noindex for Tag Archives: Check this option. This will exclude tag archive pages from being crawled by search engines. This option is useful for avoiding duplicate content.
11) Advanced Settings:
a) Autogenerate Descriptions: Check this option. This option will auto generate META descriptions when there’s no excerpt.
b) Remove Descriptions For Paginated Pages: Leave this option. If you check this option, META descriptions will get hidden on Page 2 and on further pages of paginated content.
c) Unprotect Post Meta Fields: Leave this option. If you check this option it will unprotect internal post meta fields for use with XMLRPC.
d) Exclude Pages: Enter any comma separated pages here to be excluded by All in One SEO Pack plugin. You can leave this option, if you don’t wish to exclude any pages.
e) Additional Post Headers: In this field you can enter anything like stylesheet references, etc. to your header on posts. You can leave this option, if you don’t know what it is.
f) Additional Page Headers: In this field you can enter anything like stylesheet references, etc. to your header on pages. You can leave this option, if you don’t know what it is.
g) Additional Front Page Headers: In this field you can enter anything like stylesheet references, etc. to your header on front page. You can leave this option, if you don’t know what it is.
h) Additional Blog Page Headers: In this field you can enter anything like stylesheet references, etc. to your header on blog posts page. You can leave this option, if you don’t know what it is.
Hello dear Webmaster, many thanks for the useful article! From Your article took a lot of new, added Your site to bookmark, lots of useful information, I will study. I want to share with Your readers your experiences and mistakes when working with the plugin all in one seo pack. Very useful plugin for any webmaster, but the benefits it will bring when properly configured. I watched video tutorials on setting up this plugin, learned how to set it up for a couple of minutes. I decided to create a store on WordPress and installed the plugin all in one seo pack, everything is fine, created the site map, but store – it’s many pages, how to register for each product meta name description? Very difficult to put it mildly. And the plugin all in one seo pack is a great opportunity auto fill description and keywords, well, I think the solution to the problem. It’s all lazy, quickly, fast to create. Put a tick auto-fill the description and downloaded the goods. In the search after two updates, there were only a few pages. Not the result expected. This “experiment” I conducted on the shop http://kladproraba.com/ sad was the study of this miracle button to automatically fill in the fields description. You learn from mistakes. Will have to fix it, since the traffic is mainly expected to come from search engines. Spent a bunch of time wasted, one consolation – the store is not under the filter. Now, no automation, all manual, and what You suggest. Plugin all in one seo pack installed necessarily, but a tick on the automatic filling of description not set. Fill these fields yourself-handles. I hope my information will save You a lot of time and nerves, good luck and success!
Hi, I would recommend you to make sure that you are following some basic points for making SEO changes:
1) Title Tags: Must be under 50-60 characters.
2) Meta Description: Must be under 150- 160 characters.
3) Meta Keywords: Are obsolete now. Its better not to add them.
For adding Title Tag and Meta Description you need to perform keyword research for your location for which you are targeting. It doesn’t makes any sense to add keywords which no one is searching for.
For Example, for the homepage of your site the title tag is: Online shop «Klad Proraba» ✯✯✯✯✯
You have to perform keyword research to make sure that you are writing a perfect title for your site. Similarly for all the pages of your site.
All the SEO plugins are more or less the same. SEO depends on a lot of factors. Since for an ecommerce site SEO is most important as leads and eventually the sales depends on it, I would recommend that you should hire a proper experienced SEO professional or a SEO agency or if you want to do it yourself you can start by learning the basic stuffs. I find https://moz.com/blog to be a very helpful resource for basic SEO. You need to view the analytics constantly to make sure that your SEO efforts are going in the right direction.
Hope this helps!
Hello! Thank You for your help. I look at MOZ, I don’t expect a lot of customers from the search engines because the domain is only 3 months, there is no trust network :), but I’m trying very hard to gain the trust of Google, yahho and other search engines. The basics of SEO I know and know how to win the trust. A little later I will do the optimization of the store. Thank You for the help and wish You good luck 🙂
You are very welcome! All the best for your project! 🙂
Thank you, I wish You good health, happiness and all the good things in life!