How To Super-Power WordPress For Search Engine Optimization

WordPress out of the box allows standard management of the fundamental SEO meta data. 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 unknown reason WordPress still has not got the SEO fixed out of the box.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack allows you you to change the most important 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 finished using the keywords for page ranking in the early 2000′s.

Page Titles

This is the No1 SEO component to control. Always make sure that you manipulate 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 show it in their search results.

Ideally the page title consists only of appropriate keywords and nothing else. To make the text more human readable then we often add a pipe character (

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 three keywords we have found that you can still get great rankings from adding multiple keywords to the title. However, always try to make the page title as close to the keyword you want to rank for. Adding extra non-beneficial words detracts from the results achieved.

If you are a larger branded company you will probably want to add your company or brand name into the page title considering this is exposed on Google. Keep it short and clean 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. All The Same, virtually all search engines will use 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 seeing 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 attractive 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–0 characters or less this is even better seeing Google sometimes adds a date to the opening 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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