Things You'll Need:
- A Wordpress blog
- All in One SEO Pack Plug-in
- WinZip or another zip program
- FTP Access
- Your researched keywords
- About an hour of your time
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Step 1
Get SEO Pack at Wordpress.org Plugins page.Download All-in-One SEO Pack using the resources link below.
If you're using Firefox, you can do that without losing your place in these instructions. Just right-click on the link, then click on Open Link in New Tab. The link will open in a new tab and leave this page open for your reference. -
Step 2
Extract the SEO Pack files to a directory on your computer.Extract All-in-One SEO Pack to a directory on your computer.
I used Winzip for to extract all the files in the SEO Pack to a directory for my WordPress blog. You can use any file compression program you prefer. If you don't have one, there are many shareware and freeware file compression programs available online. -
Step 3
Upload the SEO Pack files to your server.Upload the SEO Pack directory from your computer to the Plugins directory of your Wordpress blog.
I use the FireFTP for Firefox extension, which is a full-featured FTP client you can use directly in your web browser. In your FTP client, navigate to the directory where you unzipped the SEO pack files on your computer. In the other frame, navigate to your WordPress plugins directory. It should be located at wordpress->wp-contents->plugins. In most FTP clients, you can simply drag the entire SEO Pack folder from the My Computer pane to the server pane and it will upload all the files. -
Step 4
Activate the SEO pack plugin in your Wordpress Administration panel.Activate the SEO pack plugin from the plug-in management page on your WordPress blog.
Log into the administrator panel of your Wordpress blog and click on Plugins in the side panel to open the Plugins management page. Find All-in-One SEO Pack, and click on the word ACTIVATE to activate the SEO Pack. You're almost done! -
Step 5
Open the SEO Pack settings panel in the WordPress Administration panel.Set your SEO pack options.
In the sidebar of your Wordpress administration panel, click on Settings to expand the Settings menu, then click on All-in-One SEO Pack to open the SEO pack settings panel. Clicking on the titles in the SEO pack panel will give you a brief explanation of each setting. The next steps will give you a bit more information on the more confusing settings. -
Step 6
Fill in your title, description and keywords in the SEO pack settings panel.Write your title, description and keywords in the boxes in the SEO pack settings.
The three big boxes at the top of the settings panel are for your blog's title, description and keywords. Those are the overall settings for your blog. You can also override those keywords for individual posts so that each post has its own keyword meta tag. -
Step 7
Set up the Title options for posts, pages and categories in SEO pack.
Set up your title options in the SEO pack settings.
Check off the Rewrite Titles box so that SEO pack can modify the way that your titles are displayed. In this case, TITLE refers to your TITLE meta tag. It won't affect the way that your blog looks. It will only change the Title that is at the top of the browser when someone reads your blog. Search engines, particularly Google, display those titles as the first line in a search engines results page. By putting the title of your post before the title of your blog, for instance, you're making sure that Google recognizes the keywords in your post title as important.
Click on the name of each field to find out which template tags you can use in each field. The tags are set off by %-signs. The words in between the %-signs will be replaced with the right information from your blog. The default settings - the ones that are already in those boxes - are probably the best settings for you to use. -
Step 8
Tell SEO pack how to handle categories and tag pages.Set up no-index and no-follow tags.
Tick off the pages that you don't want Google to index. Many SEO experts recommend that you put no-index tags on your Category and Archive pages to avoid having duplicate content come up in the search engines. Remember that every time you make a post, that post can appear on several different blog pages. By telling SEO pack to add noindex tags to Categories, Archives and Tag Archives, you're making sure that the post is the page that comes up when someone does a search. -
Step 9
Tick off additional settings to tell SEO pack to generate keyword and description META tags from your posts.
Tick off additional settings in the SEO pack settings.
Tick off the setting for Use Categories for META tags and for Autogenerate Description. With those settings ticked, SEO pack will create a META tag from the Categories that you've chosen for your posts and generate a description META tag from the contents of your post if you haven't written an excerpt. -
Step 10
Click Update Options and you're done.Click Update Options to save your changes.
That's it. You've just optimized your Wordpress blog using All-in-One SEO Pack, the easiest, most search-engine friendly update available.
Comments
artistforever said
on 4/27/2009 Awesome! I was missing this part and thought I cannot do anything with my wordpress blog. *****
bar10dr98 said
on 1/21/2009 Wow, I didn't know you could do this, thanks!
razakius said
on 1/21/2009 I used this plug-in for well over a year on my blog. It is a top notch plug-in and I'd highly suggest it to anyone. This article gives a great synopsis on how to get it installed.
Kilogramm said
on 1/21/2009 Great info, thanks for this!
dalejr88fan said
on 1/21/2009 Thanks for the information!!!