Fine tune your WordPress for SEO: rewrite title, add meta tags, canonical links and more. Out-of-the-box settings are a good starting point for blogs.
| Author: | Daniel Frużyński (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.7 |
| WordPress version tested: | 2.9.9 |
| Plugin version: | 2.2.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 08-08-2009 |
| Last updated: | 17-03-2010
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 80 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
| Plugin URI: | http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/projekty/m... |
| Total downloads: | 71 228 |
| Active installs: | 2 000+ |
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One of the biggest sources of traffic for your blog are Search Engines - mainly Google, Yahoo! and Bing (formerly MSN). Therefore it is crucial to optimize WordPress to make it SEO-friendly. Many things are already done in WordPress itself, but still there is a room for many improvements.
If you care about Search Engines and your position in search results, you should install this plugin. If you are a beginner, default settings will be good for you. If you are an advanced user, you have many options to fine-tune your blog.
Some of the plugin features are:
- Rewrite
<title>tag to get most of it; - Add Meta Keywords, Meta Description and Meta Robots tags to all blog pages;
- Use entered tags and descriptions for Meta Keywords and Meta Description tags, or generate them from content;
- Prevent Search Engines from indexing archive pages and feeds, in order to avoid Duplicate Content problem;
- Prevent Search Engines from using descriptions entered in DMOZ (ODP) or Yahoo! Directory as description for page;
- Add
<link rel="canonical">to specify preferred URL for each page; - Add
rel="nofollow"to links in various places; - Allows to enter custom meta keywords, description and robots for every post and page;
- Good default configuration for beginners and a lot of configuration options for advanced users (look for new 'Meta SEO Pack' menu);
- Full support for custom taxonomies;
- Custom filters - other plugins can integrate itself with Meta SEO Pack;
Detailed information about <title> rewriting and Meta Tags generation you can find in FAQ.
Available translations:
- English
- Polish (pl_PL) - done by me
- Dutch (nl_NL) - thanks Rene