WordPress- Set up all in one seo pack configuration tutorial

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WordPress tutorial how to set up or configure all in one seo pack wordpress plugin option settings for your blog and for your blog post.

After i posted the best wordpress plugins or widgets, and how to activate your akismet api key tutorial, today this post will digg more on how to set up all in one seo wordpress plugin. There are tons of seo plugin for your wordpress blog. Either free or paid version, but to me, all in one seo pack is the best, and very easy to use.

All in one seo pack, is the most important plugin i activate right after installing wordpress. To configure the settings, we should not be confused between, configuring for our blogs in general, and configuring the option settings for the post, as they are completely different.

Note: If you are using Twenty Ten theme of wordpress 3.0 you may want to check this tutorial first before you follow these steps.

For blog settings, here are the steps once you activate it:
1. Admin dashboard/Settings/All in One SEO.

2. Plugin Status: Enabled.

3. Home Title: Basically the same as your blog title which can be found in Admin/Settings/General/Blog title.

4. Home description: Describe your what your blog about, but not too long.

5. Home keywords: Type in your keywords and it should be done after you doing some researches, find more how to do keywords researches here.

6. Post Title Format: Delete the | %blog_title%

7. Page Title Format: Delete the | %blog_title%

8. Category Title Format: Delete the | %blog_title%

9. Untick “Use no index for Categories. Except if you have a few wordpress posts, then you may want to consider ticking this option. Whenever you write a post, writing excerpt is a good idea too, because it’s avoiding duplicate content if we set to index our categories.

See more in this post about when you need to use index or noindex in WordPress category. If you are not sure, “untick it” or feel free to contact me.

10. Tick “Use noindex for Tag Archives.

11. The end, but very important, click “Update Options” button.

Now setting up all in seo pack configuration settings whenever you create your post:

1. Scroll down, all in seo pack is in the bottom of your post’s page.
Title: Copy and paste the title of your post.
Description: Copy and paste the first line of your post, usually rich keywords line, so when people read your decsription in google, they will click your post.(it is also said, maximum 160 characters, not too long, else it will be cutted in Google search result page)
Keywords: your post keywords. If you need a guide how to choose keywords, you may want to see more here.

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18 comments

1 Shabnam Sultan { 06.18.10 at 6:50 am }: I am using All in one SEO for my blog and its working great . Thanks, for the tutorial it will help others lot.

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Dina Reply:
June 18th, 2010 at 9:16 am
@Shabnam Sultan, Hello there Yes, i agree with you, All in One SEO works great, it is my best wordpress plugin. I also hope that the tutorial helps other beginners, thanks for coming by and leaving a comment

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2 Tony { 06.20.10 at 6:23 am }: All in One could use some work. Sometimes fails on its face, and that’s one plugin I don’t need faltering when it matters most.

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Dina Reply:
June 20th, 2010 at 8:02 am
@Tony, I agree, indeed need some works, times and patient. Thanks for the comment

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3 Adrian { 06.23.10 at 1:48 pm }: Thanks for the great tutorial! Quick question: if I install AIO, will it automatically change the permalink structure for my already existing posts or does it only effect future posts? Or will it help redirect if I choose to change the permalink structure through the basic wp settings?

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Dina Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:56 pm
@Adrian, Hello there AIO has nothing to do with permalinks settings of your blog. AIO will help your blog what to show in Google or other search engines result pages, for the titles and descriptions if the keywords you choose is what the surfers typed. If you just installed AIO now, i recommend you update all of the post title, and description, it won’t affect anything if the title as same as your post title. But changing permalinks will affect your SERPs.

I noticed from your blog, you still have ?p=486 permalink It is not friendly for search engines at all, you might want to change this permalink to more search engine friendly, see more in this post: http://www.blog.web6.org/how-to-change-permalinks-wordpress/ before you have more posts. But be sure to backup everything and read the guide from wordpress.org official website first.

Good luck and thank you for the comment

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Adrian Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:20 pm
@Dina, Thank you so much for the great info! I’ll be making these changes tonight for sure!

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Dina Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 5:07 pm
@Adrian, You’re most welcome Take your time and good luck.

Backup before changing anything is a good idea too

Adrian Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 5:12 pm
@Dina, sorry one more question! About the backup, I’m hosted on GoDaddy, and I know they backup my site nightly. Would you recommend still backing everything up if I haven’t made any changes yet today?

Dina Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:06 pm
@Adrian, Yes, we should backup our wordpress database regularly for the safety. I use wp db back up plugin.

Here is video to do quick database backup: http://www.blog.web6.org/backup-wordpress-database/

And here is a video how to backup with a plugin so you will receive backup regularly, or download it (depends on your settings) and restoring wordpress (i hope you will never do a restore)
http://www.blog.web6.org/back-up-and-restore-in-wordpress/

I did a complete restore this blog last month. And thanks God it went well
4 Adrian { 06.24.10 at 4:28 am }: Hi Dina, AIO is great and your tutorial was SOOOO helpful in getting it set up. I also changed my permalinks and everything went well with one exception. The links on my home page to the archived pages (in the boxes and numbered) don’t seem to work. Any ideas?

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Dina Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 7:09 am
@Adrian, Hi, i would disable all plugins and try again, if it does not work, switch to default theme for a minutes, then see if it works. If both not working, then i have no idea why, you might ask to wordpress.org. Let me know how it works

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5 anekdot { 06.24.10 at 4:06 pm }: Thanks for the tips. Only 1 question how to add to the title the child (or parent) category if i have multiple categories.

Waiting for response.

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Dina Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
@anekdot, Hello there

All In Seo Pack enable us to optimize our post title, independent from Category (or Child Category) Title.

However to optimize your Parent or Child Category’s Title, you can modify in Admin/Posts/categories, here, you can type in The title, slugs, even descriptions. It’s already built-in in our wordpress blog

Hope this helps. Thanks for the comment

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6 All in one SEO { 07.02.10 at 2:18 pm }: all in one seo is great but is there option to set categories title manually???

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Dina Reply:
July 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm
@All in one SEO, there is an option to set the title manually, it is in admin dashboard/Posts/Categories, fill in the title, slug and description

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7 fari { 07.21.10 at 10:20 pm }: hey sis ur voice is soo sweet i like
nd ur work is realy fantastic nd informstive
keep it up thks

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Dina Reply:
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:09 am
@fari, Thanks! The informative post is more important to me.

Thank you for commenting.

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