I would not say that naked wordpress is bad for SEO - just make sure that the permalinks are set up correctly. Also meta keywords and description is ignored by most search engines.

What are the diffferences between wpSEo and AllInOneSeoPack ?

wow, it sounds really helpful, just a bit concerned if i have delete existed meta tag that already been detected by google, anyway, i’m gonna give it a try.

“Also meta keywords and description is ignored by most search engines.” Or so we’re told by the search engines….

Google seems to penalize sites for not having the tags. I wonder if they secretly do check the tags, but they don’t place too high a value on them.

I completely disagree with you. Wordpress out of the box is not inefficient when it comes to SEO. If you’ve setup your permalinks correctly then it is quite good. I’ve found it to be better for search engine ranking than other CMS solutions.

What is the code that needs to be used for the keyword tag? I found the description one:

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But just replacing “description” with “keywords” didn’t seem to work.

Thanks for the plugin suggestion!

As others have mentioned WP does pretty well out of the box, and generally you can rank well for low competitive keywords easily as long as you use permalinks and keywords in your post titles. Going for broad terms or really competitive keywords may require more work but it’s not rocket science and really boils down to relative content and inbound links.

I’ve managed many many sites over the last ten years and never experienced the so called Duplicate content penalty. Google may only rank one page (out of multiples) but they don’t blacklist, filter, or penalize your entire site.

Please note that I’m not trying to be confrontational here, I just think it’s hard for people to figure out what’s what with so many people writing about SEO. In my experience it pays to keep things simple…only do the barest minimum of optimization necessary and focus on quality content that generates conversation.

Argh. Yet another full of FUD and urban myths article about SEO problems.

1st point: “WordPress” is not bad for SEO. Nor good. It’s not a WordPress issue. It’s a theme issue. Your theme might be good or bad for this matter. Just like WordPress is not ugly : your theme might or might not be pretty. And being a theme matter, it’s not a plugin’s job to enhance SEO.

2nd point: Duplicate content is a false issue on the same website. Search engines penalizes duplicate content when found on differents websites, and ignore the ones they think is not the original one.
Having an article’s content replicated on index page, the article page, the categories archives and the day/month/year archives is good for SEO because, simply put, it generates more content. A site with 1000 pages filed in a variety of way is better than a site with 100 unique pages. Putting nofollow or noindex on parts of your site is the dumbest idea ever. I get about 2% of my SE visitors on archive pages, why should I get rid of them ?
This said, if you’ve written a kick ass article about toothpick, it’s your responsibility to make sure that search engines will point people searching for toothpicks to your article page, and not the monthly archive where it belongs. Why ? Because it will interest more the reader to find the article than the archive full of different stuff.
But then again, presenting content differently in archive pages than in the article pages is a theme’s job.

Bottom line: get a SEO optimized theme, not plugins. Link [planetozh.com].

I’m not a fan of this plugin. I’ve had much better results using Link [wp.uberdose.com], which integrates well with UTW and allows me to get custom meta descriptions for each individual post.

Oh, and I’m not affiliated with All-in-One SEO, just a huge fan! ;)

Your summary link: “Head META Description” goes to a 404 page

I’d like to learn more about how META data is treated by search engines..

@ Ozh
Interesting comment. Which WP themes are the best SEO optimized (in your point of view), can you name a few? Thanks!

@Ozh:

i don’t apply any SEO plugins as i am not sure whether they work.
my blog received hundreds of targeted readers from google everyday although just change the permalinks.
All you should do is setup the permalinks, no date,no id,only title.
Link [your-blog-name.com]

Think I will try and experiement with the all in one seo pack plugin first and then if I dont like it, then I will try wpSEO.

Thanks for providing the discussion though Smashing Magazine

–> Ozh.

Duplicate content is a “real” issue that you should pay attention to, even if it is on the same domain. What would stop me churning out a 100 copies of the same page on the one domain? Do you think that would not go supplemental?

Check & test everything you read for blogs yourself.

i think that naked wp is very good for seo.. but you just have to know, what you want!

hmmm, i also cannot agree with “naked WP is bad for SEO…” and such plugins like wpSEO, i don’t know… I obtained good results with the naked wp ;)

Content is everything. Not SEO.

The gold old Meta tags come back again!

Meta tags mean nothing in seo rankings

Title tags and descriptive links mean a lot.

I agree with John. I would put much more emphasis on creating short, descriptive title tags and rich, Link [www.epursuit.net] rather than spending too much time on meta keywords and descriptions.

I agree totally wordpress sucks when it comes to seo, some theme designs are bad too, h2 before content is such a major issue. Great post, thanks!

I completely disagree with you….SEO doesnt depend on wordpress but it depends on the theme that you are using. and secondly if you have a proper permalink then you will never have multiple URL’s for a single post.

I use WordPress for my blog at Link [www.vermonter.com] and find that I get best results from changing my page title meta-tag under options, whenever I post a new article. The older posts don’t seem to come up very often on their own though.

…. otherwise a good plug-in for wordpress is “All in One SEO Pack”.

I’m content with the All in one SEO pack for my blog.

All-In-One-SEO is very good but can you change pages, tags and categories descriptions and keywords ?? Don’t think so… And it seems that WPseo can do so…

what about Link [www.bercongroup.com] ?

ok thanks i download

After I read the article and it reminds me of a tool I downloaded month ago. Its called g(oo)gle(sc)rambl(er) and is written in C#. —- There is a problem with copying content from other websites - google will kick your (sub-)domain very quickly. So you have to scramble the text before you put it on your website. The tool helped me very much to get a lot more visitors and the ads I host are clicked much more often. The project seems to be a non-profit project, very nice of the programmer. - Sarah

Humm…. I was using Optimal Title for some of my blogs. Will check this one out. Thanks for explanatory info on it.

English website of wpSEO goes online: Link [www.wpseo.org]

Word press gives some great advantages for any SEO tasks, but just like anything it can go bad in the wrong hands. So before rushing into any seo campaign, just study it in debt first to avoid the possible risks.

Nice website with a nice product called google scrambler

Greetings

All in one SEO works well for me for wordpress.

I use the wpseo plugin and love it. Even had my developer modify it a little bit. Awsome

I am new to WP. Can anyone direct me to a good tutorial on using / configuring wpSEO >?

“Time is ripe for every
SEO specialists to start themselves calling as SEM (Search Engine Marketers). Search Engines have already become cauldrons where many things are getting cooked at the same time.
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