The WordPress All in One SEO Pack Plugin used to be the most popular SEO plugin before Yoast took the top spot. Find out if it’s worth using All in One SEO or if it’s all hype!
The All in One SEO Plugin Review is from 2010, so no longer completely valid. Will try to update when I have the time.
After writing the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review, made sense to review the most popular WordPress SEO plugin, yes the All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin.
Like with other so called SEO plugins I don’t use them on live sites, the All in One SEO Plugin was tested on a development server (work PC).
WordPress All in One SEO Pack Plugin
Activated the free All in One SEO Pack (Version 1.6.12.2) to receive the following warning:
The plugin generated 152 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.
Didn’t look into what caused this warning.
All in One SEO Pack – Pro Version
There’s a paid version of this SEO plugin called: All in One SEO Pack – Pro Version, I had a look on the authors site etc… but couldn’t find a detailed additional features list (short feature list below), so could only review the free version of this WordPress plugin.
The All in One SEO Pack – Pro Version currently costs $39.99 and includes these extra features:
* Custom Taxonomy support
* Advertisement-free
* Ideal for Developers and Firms using the plugin on client sites
* Support Forum
* Advanced notice of new features, updates, functionality
I personally wouldn’t pay for any of the above.
Enabling WordPress All in One SEO Plugin
After activating the plugin you are left with a red warning on your admin pages:
All in One SEO Pack must be configured. Go to the admin page to enable and configure the plugin.
All in One SEO Pack now supports Custom Post Types.
You would assume this means the SEO plugin though active hasn’t made any changes to your WordPress site yet (needs enabling). Not true, the format of my pages title elements have been changed. I tested the WordPress plugin with my theme which has search engine optimized title tags and even though I’d not enabled the All in One SEO Pack they’d been over written with worse SEO titles! Tested on TwentyTen, same result.
After loading the SEO plugins admin page the All in One SEO Plugin was indeed disabled according to this page. Viewing source of any page of the site showed this was not true as the plugin has added it’s footprint within the head section:
Note my theme already has built in canonical URL support (as does WordPress core**), so now I have double canonical URLs!
** There is nothing wrong with the built in canonical URLs WordPress core offers. The only reason I have generated canonical URLs rather than let WordPress do it is I use a customized version of the plugin SEO Super Comments (it comes free with the SEO theme) that turns comments into posts (they are indexed by Google like posts). When WordPress introduced built in canonical URLs it broke this SEO plugin (basically the new comment posts were redirected back to the original post, they were no longer indexed). There was no way to turn canonical URLs off just for these new comment pages, so I had to disable canonical URLs completely (using remove_action (‘wp_head’, ‘rel_canonical’); in the themes functions.php file) and build them at theme level for all pages except the comment posts.
All in One SEO Plugin Options
All the main settings for the All in One SEO Plugin are on this one page. Since the plugin wasn’t enabled (but was really) I ticked the enable box and the Update Options button and received the “All in One SEO Options Updated.” notification.
Again checked my development sites output (view source with FireFox) and nothing had changed from the disabled setting for this plugin! All the enabled setting appears to do is remove the red warning to configure the plugin.
Below is a list of all the important options.
Plugin Status: Enabled/Disabled : Apparently doesn’t do anything.
Home Title: Allows you to set the title element of the home page (could be a useful feature), not needed if you optimize the name of your blog.
Home Description: As above, but the META description tag for the home page.
Home Keywords (comma separated): As above, but the META keywords tag for the home page. Note the major search engines do not use this information for search engine ranking purposes, so don’t waste too much time worrying about meta keywords.
Canonical URLs: This adds canonical URLs for all your pages, but WordPress already does this (see earlier), so don’t understand what this achieves? Are these better canonical URLs, Marks and Spencers canonical URLs (British joke).
Rewrite Titles:
This allows you to set the format of your title elements (not title tags as the plugin author is calling them, they are elements not tags for feck sake!!! Anyway, the default format of the All in One SEO Plugin is generally:
Title of Page | Name of Blog
As opposed to what most WordPress templates use
Name of Blog | Title of Page
From an SEO perspective there’s not a lot to gain just turning the title element around like this. Each keyword is still going to get the same SEO benefit from being in the title, the benefit of having your more important keywords at the front of the title is minimal. Therefore if you use the default settings for the title elements you might as well not bother installing the All in One SEO Plugin.
Below I’ll list the best title elements you can achieve with the All in One SEO Plugin.
Post Title Format: %post_title%
Page Title Format: %page_title%
Category Title Format: %category_title%
Archive Title Format: %date% %blog_title%
Tag Title Format: %tag%
Search Title Format: %search%
If you are using my Talian 05 theme (any of my WordPress SEO themes) the above are the settings for the theme (the All in One SEO Plugin adds nothing to my themes title elements).
In case you haven’t got the hint, if you are using Stallion don’t use the All in One SEO Plugin, it adds nothing to the themes SEO features.
Description Format: Here you can set the format for the meta description of your pages. To mimic what I’ve done with Talian 05 use:
%description%, %blog_description%
This will result in either an automated excerpt or the excerpt you wrote for a post/page. It looks like what I’ve done for the Stallion theme the author of the plugin has either used the RSS version of the excerpt or stripped HTML from the post/page excerpt. The RSS excerpt has the HTML tags stripped from the post/page excerpt, if you don’t do this and your automated excerpt has HTML code it messes your head section of the page: before I switched to the RSS excerpt in Talian 05 the meta description would have images in it on one of my sites where an image was at the top of the code!
Note the Meta description tag has no Google ranking value (it doesn’t increase ranking), but can increase click through from a Google SERP if it reads well (use like an advert rather than a place to stuff keywords).
404 Title Format: Title element of your error page (not that important).
Paged Format: Determines the format for multiple pages of an archive (page 2, page 3 etc…). In the plugin the default is
– Part %page%
I’d leave it blank, there is no SEO value in adding ” – Part 2″ to page two of an archive.
SEO for Custom Post Types: this puts the custom settings for each page/post on the main edit post/page admin menu of your WordPress dashboard (where you can view and edit all your posts and pages). Basically adds the custom titles, descriptions and keywords you’ve added using the built in All In One SEO Plugin options you get at the bottom of new (or edited) posts and pages. Adds no SEO value, just lists what you’ve done/not done.
Use Categories for META keywords: If checked it will add the categories for a post as the keywords. Can be used in conjunction with the next settings to have tags as well as keywords.
Use Tags for META keywords: See above, but tags.
Note the meta keywords tag has no SEO value in the major search engines. I would not waste my time worrying about meta keywords in 2010+.
Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page: Related to the meta keywords tag, so not important.
How to Damage Your WordPress Sites SEO
Now we get to the scary damaging SEO options that can loose you search engine rankings and traffic!
Use noindex for Categories: This is ticked by default and means your Category archives will no longer be indexed in Google!!!
This is a terrible default setting, many webmasters use their Categories as the main way for search engine spiders to find their deeper posts (the search engine spiders need a route to find them). Although noindexing the Categories doesn’t stop spiders following links to your posts from the Categories it does mean the link benefit (PR) passing to the Category pages is partially wasted (it won’t aid ranking Category related SERPs). I have plenty of SERPs from Category pages, if I activated the All in One SEO Plugin and left the default settings I’d loose thousands of visitors a month! Trust me, do not use this All in One SEO setting.
Note: although there is the potential of duplicate content problem, if you use post excerpts on archive pages (like the Category and Tags pages) the potential duplicate content issues are pretty much removed.
Use noindex for Archives: As “Use noindex for Categories” except for the dated archive pages. I recommend you don’t even have these archives on your sidebar menu (they add no SEO value to a WordPress site), but if you do you shouldn’t use this setting as again it wastes link benefit, consider these archive pages as a sitemap. If you insist on using dated archives edit the sidebar widget so they are only shown on the home page. In this way they amount of link benefit that goes through the dated archive pages is minimal. It’s better to use the Category and/or Tag archives for passing link benefit through your site to deep posts.
Use noindex for Tag Archives: Exactly the same advice as “Use noindex for Categories”. Don’t use this setting, it wastes link benefit/PR.
Autogenerate Descriptions: When checked your pages and posts will use the automated excerpt function to generate a meta description tag.
Capitalize Category Titles: I suppose if you forgot to capitalize the first letter of your categories this would be handy. Looks nicer to have the first letter capitalized IMHO, no SEO value mind you.
Exclude Pages: Pages and sections you don’t want All in One SEO Pack to touch.
Additional Post Headers: Could be used for adding additional style sheets or external javascript to the header for posts. Could be useful if you don’t know how to edit the header.php file of your template. Not an SEO feature as such.
Additional Page Headers: As above for pages.
Additional Home Headers: As above for the home page.
The last three settings means you couldn’t add to the header of categories and other archive pages, so if you wanted to add a stylesheet sitewide this wouldn’t be possible (edit the header.php file).
Log important events: Log All in One SEO Pack events.
WordPress All in One SEO Plugin Review Conclusion
The good news is the All in One SEO Plugin no longer uses nofollow attributes (it used to). Google no longer honors the nofollow attribute in the way it was designed to, a nofollow link deletes link benefit! So at least the plugin author has moved on, unlike some other so called SEO plugins that use this attribute.
The bad news is the default settings are not very good regarding noindex advice. You should not want to noindex any of your pages, especially not your Category archives that can pull in quite a bit of traffic in their own right. The canonical URLs option is pointless, WordPress does this anyway.
The only useful feature of this SEO plugin is the ability to manipulate your WordPress sites title elements. However, the default titles are far from ideal.
All the WordPress SEO themes I’ve created to date include code that by default generate search engine optimized titles (which this SEO plugin breaks).
I do not recommend using the All in One SEO Plugin or any of the other WordPress SEO Plugins including the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin.
David Law
Website - SEO Gold Services
Just bought the Talian, everything is working very smoothly. I also checked out the SEO plugins page as suggested in the email you sent. I was wondering what you think of All-in-One SEO Pack Plugin. I have used it in the past, and have not been all that pleased….maybe I do not configure it well.
Would you suggest I use it?
The WordPress All in One SEO Plugin is not needed with this theme, there’s nothing important in the plugin not already included by default.
If you do use the All in One SEO Plugin you’ll need to delete the default themes Meta Keywords and Meta Description tags in the header.php file otherwise you get two sets (won’t break anything, just a waste of bandwidth).
The WordPress SEO Plugins list is soon to be updated, completely rewritten as some of the plugins I recommend are no longer supported by their original authors.
Found a really good replacement for the Alinks plugin for example called SEO Smart Links (found a bug in the plugin, but it’s not major). You’ll find the SEO Smart Links plugin can replace keywords within comments to your pages (the Alinks plugin only added links to posts and pages).
David
Thanks for all that information David. I look forward to you updating the WordPress SEO Plugins list. Will you provide downloads with the adjustments built-in to the plugins?
Thank you for your great customer service.
Yes I’ll upload zip files to the site for the WordPress SEO plugins I have to edit.
I’ve listed above the ones that will need some adjustment by me, the rest can be downloaded from the original author and they should work fine with Talian 04 now.
So from the list above it’s just this one that needs editing by me first and that’s because the original author hasn’t used the correct widget coding (it assumes you use a H2 header and not what is actually used as a header for widgets: most themes use H2, Talian 04 uses span for SEO reasons). Also with the version of Talian 04 I last sent out the css clashes with the formatting of the number of comments listed (drops to the next line), fix is in the works for an update.
I’ve been playing around with another plugin called SEO Super Comments with this I’ve made some MAJOR code changes to the SEO Super Comments plugin to get it how I want it (big SEO improvements over the original) to make pages like this
Basically comments get their own page, it’s far from perfect SEO wise for example the title is created from the first words of the comment, but on a well commented site it can add a lot of new pages.
I plan to incorporate this plugin into the next update of Talian 04. It’s so highly customized the plugin code I use would only work with Talian 04, so I’ll bundle it in with the zip file as it’s only usable by Talian 04 customers.
David
The All In One SEO Plugin question is an easy one :-) You can create a custom meta description with the Talian theme without the need for any plugins (I believe Talian with AdSense/SEO is the only WordPress theme you can do this).
When you create or edit a post there’s an Excerpt form on the page. I’ve setup the Talian theme so it uses the excerpt for the meta description, followed by the sites tag line (if you have one).
The page you are on now for example I’ve set a Excerpt of:
Talian is a very popular Premium WordPress theme including AdSense Ready and Search Engine Optimization coding.
And since the tag line for this site is:
AdSense templates and themes for WordPress and Blogspot blogs
We get a meta description:
Talian is a very popular Premium WordPress theme including AdSense Ready and Search Engine Optimization coding. , AdSense templates and themes for WordPress and Blogspot blogs
If you don’t set an excerpt with Talian an automated snippet of the post is used, the first X number of characters of the post.
Since meta tags are all but irrelevant SEO wise (they don’t increase rankings) I have one page where I’ve gone to the trouble of creating a customised excerpt (this page as an example).
There’s no option to create a custom keywords meta tag with this theme, no major search engine uses the keywords meta tag for anything important, (the meta keywords tag was so abused in a black hat SEO way they now ignore it) so it’s a waste of time creating custom keyword meta tags. If only I used this theme I’d not even include it, but as customers expect it, I’ve copied the title of a post for the meta keywords tag (waste of space though).
When I looked at your code I saw the nofollow attribute added to your category and tag links, this is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY bad SEO wise.
All in One SEO Pack plugin has the option to nofollow archives, categories, tags etc… this is so bad for SEO reasons it should not be a feature of an SEO plugin (I advise anyone reading this not to use that plugin if you use my Talian theme, it adds no SEO value to your site)!!!
I can not over emphasise how bad this is for your site, every nofollow link is treated by Google as a real link, but the link benefit that would normally go to the page the link is pointed to (in this case one of your pages) is deleted! What this means is if you have tags on every post you are throwing away a significant amount of your hard work in gaining backlinks to your site.
I counted 25 nofollow links on that page, you are probably throwing away 25%-50% of your hard earned link benefit away by using the All in One SEO Pack plugin!
BTW it’s a good idea to keep your version of WordPress up to day, 2.8.4 is a bit out of date and could have vulnerabilities. My eldest son never bothered to update his WordPress blogs (version 2.7.*) and they were hacked! WordPress 2.9.2 is the current stable release, so there’s quite a few upgrades since 2.8.4, also the image problem could be an old bug in 2.8.4 and maybe an upgrade will fix it: like I said the image feature used to have some major bugs in the earlier 2.* releases (I never used it for that reason, so no idea how it works now).
David
Dave – Should I NOT use the FV All In One SEO Plugin with Stallion? Thanks. Yale
Short answer I do not recommend using the FV All in One SEO Plugin Pack.
David
Hunting around for reviews on All in One SEO and keep coming across reviews that aren’t really reviews, just advice on how to configure it for your own site. Your review really digs down and explains the likely results of the various settings.
Thank you for the information.
WOW! I am new to learning about SEO and searched Google for reviews for both this WordPress All in One SEO Plugin and the other that you mentioned. This review is so packed with details, most of which are Greek to me :) but what is clear, is that you know what you are talking about.
So thanks for the SEO review and the summary conclusion. Although it’s disappointing that you don’t recommend any SEO plugin because that would have been easier for me than whatever else I am going to have to do. Such as hire someone to code my SEO, who I have no idea if they know what they are doing anyway.
I’ve taken the All In One SEO Pack WordPress plugin and added it to the Stallion theme as a new (optional, don’t have to use it) Stallion options page based on All In One SEO.
The current problem with using the All In One SEO Pack plugin with Stallion (any theme) is if you set the settings incorrectly you damage your sites SERPs and there’s no warnings what the damage could be, for Stallion there’s a few settings that damage Stallion features.
The good points of the All In One SEO Pack plugin are:
More control over the title element and meta description tag output, but the defaults are awful SEO wise! These are not essential features for a Stallion site and the default settings are worse than the Stallion default output. Still if you know what you are doing more control is always nice to have and currently Stallion uses the posts excerpt for the meta description tag and the excerpt is also used on archive pages which isn’t ideal, would be great to have a stand alone meta description tag.
The bad points of the All In One SEO Pack plugin are:
Noindex options with no warning it wastes link benefit and can damage SERPs. Default setting is to noindex category archives for example, I get quite a bit of traffic via categories we want them indexed!!!
Adds their own canonical URLs which are not only not needed (WordPress default canonical URLs are fine), but damages your Stallion SEO Super Comments pages because they will have a canonical URL to the original post which means Google won’t index them! The All In One SEO title is also overwriting the Stallion SEO Super Comments titles as well which isn’t helpful.
The Stallion All In One SEO version takes what’s good, fixes what’s bad and adds new features that isn’t part of the original plugin, adds some nice new features. Good news is for those who use the All In One SEO Pack plugin their current data will be used by Stallion 6.3.
When complete (still working on the code) I’ll integrate the output with Stallion seamlessly using the plugins title output within the theme other than the title tag.
I’ve added a secondary title to the plugin which gives users the ability to add another keyword phrase for the page. Currently Stallion uses the title of a post in multiple template locations which from an automated SEO perspective is great, but it would be nice to be able to add a secondary highly related title to use in place of the main title.
For example the secondary title could be used (not decided what to use it for yet :-)) for the “XX responses to Title of Post” heading – “XX responses to Secondary Title of Post”. For example the main title for this post is “Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests” the secondary title could be a related phrase like “Stallion Feature Requests” which would change the comment heading to XX responses to Stallion Feature Requests”.
Got the bulk of the code coded, working on where to use the outputs next.
Other new Stallion theme v6.3 features
Also added a favicon options panel, almost 400 favicons built in and an easy to use favicon uploader.
Stumbleupon Button included (finally got around to that one Mark :-))
More options for Google Analytics, Multiple Top-Level Domain options and AdSense tracking integration for example.
Removed Yahoo site verification and added Alexa Verification.
Added the ability to use more image sizes, added this for generating 16px by 16px favicons from images uploaded via the media uploader, but ended up not using it for the Stallion favicons feature, but have left it in because you could use it for having more image sizes so I might add a ‘hard coded’ small thumbnail default like 100px by 100px which might be useful as you could have two thumbnail sizes.
David
Those who like more and more options with WordPress themes and plugins are going to love Stallion v6.3.
As described in the last comment I’ve taken the All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin as the base for a new Stallion theme options page. I was planning to add one secondary title, this would be for a derivative of the main title. I saw the SEO power of this concept and added four :-)
Not finished all the placements yet, but basically there will be six ‘titles’ associated with a post in Stallion v6.3.
WordPress core post title
Original All In One SEO Title Tag (optional)
Four separate Stallion All In One SEO Keyphrases (Related Keyphrases 1-4) (optional)
If you’ve taken a good look at what Stallion outputs you’ll have noticed the WordPress core post title is used in several theme locations by default (it’s a major SEO feature of Stallion).
The good thing about this is your posts titles are reused multiple times within various headers which means your main post titles convey to Google what the pages main SERPs are. The not so good thing about this is the post titles are reused lots of times, ideally they’d be slightly different for SEO reason.
Stallion v6.3 will achieve this SEO improvement through using the five Stallion All In One SEO Titles.
For example
The Original All In One SEO Title Tag is used as follows:
On posts and pages the Title tag/element
Comment On links on every comment (this links back to the post with the direct link to the comment)
For the Continue reading links on archive pages
The Related Keyphrases 1-4 is used as follows:
## responses to heading above the comments
Leave a reply to heading above the comment form
The Stallion SEO Super Comments links to the super comments pages
On the super comments pages they are used extensively
If you use the Stallion Related Posts Plugin the Related Articles to heading
I haven’t finished all the placements yet, when complete this will allow Stallion theme users to add 5 additional title like phrases to a post, each should read like a title (not just keyword stuffed).
For example this page might be something like:
WordPress core post title – Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests
Original All In One SEO Title Tag – Stallion SEO Theme Feature Requests
Related Keyphrases 1 – WordPress SEO Theme Features
Related Keyphrases 2 – Stallion Theme Features
Related Keyphrases 3 – Stallion SEO Features
Related Keyphrases 4 – Stallion WordPress SEO Theme Features
The five additional titles do read like titles and would add related keywords and related keyword phrases to this page.
As a side note I’ve kept the original All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin setting names which means the original All In One SEO Pack options (those duplicated between the original plugin and the Stallion theme) can be used by the original plugin and Stallion. This means current users of All In One SEO will have their titles, meta descriptions etc… already setup when they activate the Stallion feature and if a Stallion user moves to another theme the settings will work with the stand alone All In One SEO plugin (long term I might release a stand alone version that theme developers can basically do what I’ve done to use all the new settings).
I’ve always said using a plugin like the All In One SEO Pack is a waste of time because it only changes the title element (title tag) of posts and doesn’t optimize anything else within the template layout. What I’m doing with Stallion is how an SEO plugin should be designed, it has to work seamlessly with the template layout. It’s no good just adding a slightly different title and that’s it and expecting awesome SERPs because you changed a word or two!For example there’s not much difference between “Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests” (WordPress core title) and “Stallion SEO Theme Feature Requests” (possible All In One Title Tag for this post), just changing the title tag means all the other locations where the core post title is/can be used isn’t changed.
This is going to a be a cool SEO feature.
David
Can I use 2 WordPress SEO plugins such that “Yoast WordPress SEO” and “All in One SEO Pack” ?
The Stallion SEO Theme has had a major update to Stallion All In One WordPress SEO Theme V7 which includes the WordPress All in One SEO Pack Plugin with MAJOR SEO and feature updates.
The original All in One SEO Plugin on the post and page edit screen includes unique
All In One Title Tag
Meta Description
Meta Keywords
The built in Stallion All In One SEO Plugin includes
All In One Title Tag
Meta Description
Meta Keywords
Related Keyphrase 1
Related Keyphrase 2
Related Keyphrase 3
Related Keyphrase 4
The original All In One Title Tag with a standard theme replaces the title element (found in the head of a pages code) and that’s it, the All In One SEO Title Tag isn’t used anywhere else by the original All In One SEO Pack Plugin which I don’t think is enough reason to install a WordPress SEO Plugin for.
In Stallion 7 the 4 Related Keyphrase and the original All In One Title Tags are used through out a Stallion site to add derivative phrases to a page. They are also used in the soon to be released Stallion Related Posts Plugin v1.1.
For this post original post title “WordPress All in One SEO Plugin Review” I’ve set them to:
All In One Title Tag – WordPress All in One SEO Pack Plugin Review
Related Keyphrase 1 – WordPress SEO Plugin Review
Related Keyphrase 2 – All in One WordPress SEO Plugin
Related Keyphrase 3 – WordPress SEO Plugin
Related Keyphrase 4 – WordPress All in One SEO Plugin
Have a quick look over this post at the title tag, the comments heading, the related articles heading and links to this post (links from other parts of the site) from various widgets etc… and you will find the 5 phrases above (and the original title of the post) used through the theme. This means rather than having just the posts title for links and headings in a standard WordPress install or at best the All In One SEO title tag used for the title element, with Stallion v7 there’s 6 phrases used, pretty cool WordPress SEO feature hey :-)
NO other WordPress theme adds this level of SEO customization to a WordPress site, period.
David
So… you add META keywords? Why? Google announced they were going to quit using them in their search algorithms several years ago. EVEN the All In One SEO Pack’s next update will be doing away with them.
That’s a fair point regarding the Meta Keywords Tag, for years I’ve been explaining to both my SEO clients and on my sites (try to find a page where I recommend using the Meta Keywords Tag) the meta keyword tag is useless, BUT users expect it as part on an SEO package.
WordPress Keywords Meta Tags
On the Stallion SEO Theme Version of All In One SEO main options page:
Home Meta Keywords Tag Google ignores the meta keywords tag : A comma separated list of your most important keywords for your HOME Page that will be written as META keywords on your homepage. Please be aware Google and most major search engines completely ignore the keywords meta tag (AKA waste of time).
Use Categories for META keywords (NOT Recommended) : Check this if you want your tags for a given post used as the META keywords for this post (in addition to any keywords you specify on the post edit page). Not recommended, remember meta keywords are worthless SEO wise.
Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts/Pages (NOT Recommended) : Check this if you want your keywords on a custom posts page (set it in options->reading) to be dynamically generated from the keywords of the posts showing on that page. If unchecked, it will use the keywords set in the edit page screen for the posts page. Not recommended, remember meta keywords are worthless SEO wise.
Under the edit post/page screen.
META keywords Tag : Comma separated keywords list relevant to this PAGE only. The meta keywords tag is NOT used by Google as a ranking factor or for anything SEO relevant, do not waste your time adding keywords here for Google.
Although you and I both know the meta keywords tag is a complete waste of time there are thousands of webmasters who believe it’s the be all and end all of SEO and won’t use a theme without them! I hope the above builtin information will guide more to not waste their time on meta keywords. For those who still use them, Stallion has the option builtin, harmless waste of time adding meta keywords.
Since you didn’t see this information guess you haven’t taken a look at Stallion v7. You should the new SEO features are awesome.
David
David…
Well just damn…LOL…I just bought Talian 5 SEO theme an hour or so ago…
You keep beating the drum on your end, I’ll keep beating the drum on mine, and the soon-coming update to AIO will have a checkbox to disable meta keywords.
Eventually…maybe…folks will realize the absolutely best SEO tool is quality, original, relevant content.
Bob
I’m almost through with my first stallion site and I’ve so far managed to stay away from additional WP plugins thanks to your excellent theme – it’s got all that’s really needed. Almost ;)
So there are three functions I still need to implement in my site:
Google XML Sitemaps
Newsletter
???
I need to collect emails to make special announcements and maybe special offers.
Thanks
delta
Only have experience of WP plugins I’ve used and don’t use those plugins, these are plugins I use:
WordPress SEO Plugins some of it’s out of date, for example since adding the WordPress SEO Posts widget to Stallion no longer need the Most Popular Posts WordPress Plugin, the Stallion version is better.
There’s a newer version of Contextual Related Posts SEO Version just for Stallion at the next link below.
WordPress SEO Plugins work in progress.
David
After a long long time of spending and also wasting my time on SEO plugins, I loved the way Yoast WordPress SEO can things put off, like page 2 or page 3 from a page, if you know what I mean. But every time I use Yoast and posted a blog, it just not appear in Google at all.
All in One Seo does it in no time. But also that was a sort of day dream. The thing is Google sitemaps that does the thing for you, not Yoast, No headspace and not all in one. Maybe all in one does a little help with some things. But you must find the combination of the right plugins. Or yoast with w3 total cache or all in one and wp super cache .. or yes I have tried .. NO plugins anymore. Well the last option give you the need to tweak in the title.
So I decided to delete the pagination of the category and made no more than one page for a page or post. I use All in One and Google Sitemaps and even I don’t use the fields from All in One Seo, I use only the auto generated description and that is it.
I’m tired of all the seo plugins by the way.
I think Yoast SEO plugin is awesome It’s more complete than Platinum SEO or All In One SEO, and I really like that XML sitemaps are integrated.
The “Page Analysis” SEO feature is pretty good, but I already use Easy WP SEO for that, it’s an excellent SEO WordPress plugin as well.
Scott
We have been having some performance issues with our host VPS servers and have found that All IN One SEO pack plugin is apparently using too much ram and server resources.
We love it but can’t use it any longer.
I am bummed!
Rewriting titles and description are a good way to engage people to visit your site in Google search results and SEO plugins are mainly about this feature.
Don’t use SEO plugins because they are not completely optimized is nonsense if they add a good feature. Well, if the conclusion is “do not use these SEO plugins IF you use my theme”, it’s more comprehensible.
By the way, very interesting post.