In this post, I want to show you how to setting All in one SEO pack plugin for WordPress blog that will improve your page rank on Google. It does not instantly make every content on your site get into Google first page, it also depends on how you craft your blog content.
However, by tweak All in One SEO Pack settings, it really help to get in there. As you may hear that All in One SEO Pack is the popular SEO plugin for WordPress. This plugin is used by professional SEO but is very easy for anyone like you and me to use it right in the box. With this plugin, you can improve your blog ranking on Google search engine results, just like a PRO!
Okay! enough for the chit chat, this is how I setup All in one SEO pack plugin:
All in One SEO Pack General Settings
In general settings, I just let the setting by default and leave it just the way it is. So lets skip it to the next settings!
Home Page
In the Homepage, settings write your site name and Home description, write a nice and catchy description your site.
Most of the search engine is using maximum characters of 160, so write it beautifully. Below is the of my settings for my Home Page.
I am sure you can do it better than me. If your theme ha Static Front Page, choose Enable to use it.
Title Settings
This is a custom title setting that I use for my blog. What I do is just replace the Vertical pipe symbols ( | ) with Hyphen symbols ( – )
Something like this: %page_title% | %blog_title% to ? %page_title% – %blog_title%
Note! do not change any of ‘Underscore’ ( _ ) symbols. See screenshot below for the example.
Custom Post Type Settings
In my custom post type settings in SEO on only these post types section, I enable for Post, Page Media.
For Enable Advance Option section I choose Enable and check for Custom Title. see screen shot below
Display Settings
It’s better leave the display settings by it’s default.
Webmaster verification
You can follow the tutorial on how to enables Webmaster Verification by clicking help on right top ( ? ) button. If your site is already verified, you can just leave it alone.
Noindex Settings
In Noindex Settings, I check for Use for Tag Archives. For Search page and 404 . I just leave other settings by default.
Leave other settings like Advance Settings and Keyword settings by default. And click Update Option to save the settings.
Settings for posts snippets
When All in one SEO Pack installed in your WordPress blog, bellow every of your post editor will have new boxes for post snippet .
In that box, you can customize how your post title and description will appear in Search engine page. See screenshot below for the .
Custom Settings for Specific Pages
This setting is for specifics pages like Contact, Disclaimers, Privacy policy, Term of use and another page that you don’t want to be indexed by search engines by Robot Meta NOINDEX and Robot Meta NOFOLLOW.
Don’t worry search engines bot will understand. See screenshot below.
Done
That’s my settings of All In One SEO Pack plugin for my blog, and that’s the way I use the plugin to get my ‘dirty works’ done.
If you already have this awesome plugin installed in your blog, you can give it try to use this setting. Ok, hope this tip useful. Thanks for reading.