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Written by David Anttony on October 25th, 2009

How To Super-Power WordPress SEO

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Wordpress out of the box allows primary management of the primary SEO meta information. To extend the functionality we add our own super-charged version of the All-In-One-SEO Pack. The SEO pack makes it simple to modify the page title and page meta description.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack is a great WordPress plugin that completes the SEO aspects for WordPress. For some reason WordPress still has not got the SEO fixed out of the box.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack provides for you to change the most significant page components – page title and page description. It also allows you to modify the page keywords, but as we all know, search engines no longer take note of these because they have been spammed too much in the past. Google ended using the keywords for page ranking in the early 2000’s.

Page Title tags

This is the No1 SEO component to control. Always make sure that you control the page title. The page title appears in the browser window at the very top of the screen. Search engines use this in the listings and display it in their search results.

Always try to make the page title only incorporate the keywords you want the page to rank for. Try to limit them to 2 or three maximum.

The page title is the MOST powerful SEO page element because it is like the title of a book. And just like a book title, if it is good it will be more appealing to readers.

If your page needs to extend to cover two or 3 keywords we have learned that you can still get solid rankings from adding multiple keywords to the title. But do remember that the closer the page title is to the keyword you want to rank for the better.

If you are a larger branded company you will probably want to add your company or brand name into the page title seeing this is displayed on Google. Keep it short and uncomplicated though. Do not add your brand statement just your brand or company name.

Page Descriptions

This element is NOT used by search engines for ranking purposes. Nevertheless, most search engines will utilize this in their search results so it is important. We have discovered that Google will use the description most of the time. We have not yet discovered how it decides if to use it or not. At other times Google will use the first piece of text that it can find on the page. On Flash pages this can be an issue considering there is no actual text content. This is one reason why you should always add at least one sentence of HTML text on a Flash based page so Google and other search engines have something meaningful to display in the search results.

By having a good description it will increase your click through rates because the text will be more fascinating to people. Ensure that you use a maximum of 156 characters. If you use any more characters Google will truncate the rest. If you can keep your descriptions to 140 characters or less this is even better seeing Google sometimes adds a date to the start of the description which is part of the 156 characters it displays.

SEO Meta data shown on Google listing

Changing the meta data and page title

At the bottom of every page and post you will find the meta tags plugin details. Update the details appropriately. Note: If you can only use see the title for the plugin and no details, just click the title and the section will expand.

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