All in One SEO Pack for Wordpress
written by John Chow
SEO Plugin for Wordpress
I’ve been looking for a Wordpress plugin like this for a while now. All in One SEO Pack allows you to control the title, description and keywords META tags for every post you write. By default, Wordpress uses your blog tagline (in my case, The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul) for the description and keyword tags. This is far from ideal because it doesn’t really describe what the post is about. By allowing you to control the title, keyword and description META tags, All in One SEO Pack make your posts a lot more search engine friendly.
Since the home page is the most important page, All in One SEO Pack allows you to have a home page title, description and keywords that are independent of any other option. In addition, you can create separate titles, description and keywords for each post. For blogs that have been around for a while and have a ton of posts already, All in One SEO Pack will use the first 25 words (user adjustable) of the post as the meta description and the categories the posts are in as the META keywords.
All in One SEO Pack Options Menu
Installation of All in one SEO is extremely simple - just upload and activate. The plugin has the above options to set the home page and post SEO parameters. The plugin adds a title and keyword field to the Wordpress editor so all new posts can have custom title and keywords META tags. The META description is created by writing in the Optional Excerpt field. Additional SEO options includes the ability to exclude duplicate contents, like the archives and categories, from being indexed.
Depending on the Wordpress theme you are using, you may need to edit your header.php file to remove the META keyword and description calls. Otherwise, you may end up with two sets of META keyword and description per page.
The Plugin in Action
You can see the plugin in action in this post. The title tag of this post has been changed to “Optimize your Wordpress blog for Google with All in One SEO Pack” If you look at the page source you’ll also see I have custom keywords and a custom META description that reads:
All in One SEO Pack is a great Wordpress plugin to help you rank higher with search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Very easy to install and use.
That’s definitely more descriptive than The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul. 
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Is a good plugin, maybe i will use it
Wordpress has the best plugins, doesn’t it. this is a rhetorical question, by the way.
Wow, I would have figured you of all people would already have that one installed! I guess you really don’t know everything
Cracks in the facade, cracks!
Sweet plugin! I just started a couple new blogs and this will definitely be useful on them as well as my older blogs.
Would it not be a lot of work to adapt it to the old sites. I have google webmaster now looking for certain pages since I made adjustments. Will it change. It thinks that the pages are gone and do not exist…
I wonder if this is really hurting my site.
It works great with old blog. Before, all my old posts had the same META description. Now the META description is the first 25 words of each old posts.
Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks John
omg me too, scot. i’ve been lagging on getting my meta descriptions up
thanks john!
Sweet plugin! I just might use it, anyways thanks John for another great plugin!
Do you really experienced with this plugin. How much cost for it.
I have such a hard time with wordpress!
Why? I love the blogging tool! I think it beats TypePad, Blogger, and all the other competitors
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That would be debatable, but as far as plugins go, WordPress probably has a better selection than most.
This seems like a no-brainer. Thanks for pointing it out as I hadn’t seen it before.
Yay! :claps hands: Thanks for the heads up!
Cool!! Great WordPress plugin.
it works great … I thought you were already running it … but i’ve been using it since I started blogging!
Darin
Very interesting, I’ve just installed it. On the other hand, I would like to understand why I have some posts that are #1 on Google for some combinations of keywords without using any SEO optimization. For example, if you search for “n95 vs N80i” in Google.com, my comparison post in #1, as well as if you search for download maps n95.
Any idea ?
I also have the same thing. If you search “Is Adbux a scam?” into Google. I think it may just be the fact that we have the permalinks set up to | , so the post name is first. I think that is an SEO method - a very basic one.
Cool plugin, it will help alot.
Thanks
That is indeed a great plugin
Very nice plugin. I will probably use it!
Now this is sweet and not so evil
Thanks for looking out. Great Plugin!
Awesome plugin! Thank you very much!
I’ve been using this plugin for a while now, but I didn’t know there was an update out for it. Thanks!
Have you encountered any problems with it so far? Anyone?
I love you for this!
I also used to use All in One SEO Pack. On a new blog I installed wpSEO, and I like it even more, as you have more options for configuration. Actually you can configure behaviour for title, keywords and description for home, post, page, category, search, archive and tags separately. It is also using words in xhtml tags as keywords and sorting them according to relevancy.
Maybe you should give it a try. Unfortunatelt I think there is just a german description but the plugin is available als in english.
http://www.wpseo.de
Here is the translated version using google translate wpseo
This is a great plugin…but I’m just surprised that something like this hasn’t already been built into Wordpress. Considering the software is known to be built with SEO in mind.
Oh and on that note, my avatar finally works again on here. No clue why it wasn’t working before!
Great plugin I will definatly use that one.
Hey John, I just noticed that your google ranking have dropped big time even when I search for “John Chow” you don’t show.
Could it be because of this plugin?
No, it’s just Google dancing around. Do a search for “Text Link Ads” and you’ll see the text link ads is gone from the front page as well.
Is this still related to the spiders from the other day, or was that an isolated case?
I use Head Space from Urban Giraffe and I love it, love it, love it. It has the options listed above and more. Over 49% of all my traffic comes from search engines and I owe it all to this plugin.
UG is a great site for plugins and all WP users should check it out.
Sweet plugin! I installed it and got it working with my most recent post. Took me a second to catch on with the whole “title” tag thing but I got it now. Rock on evil one.
I really liked the plugin, i was looking for something like that since i started bloging.(only 2 weeks, but well…).
Thanks!
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nice,thank you John.
Fantastic plug. Now to get it to work and to decide to swap it with the other one that took me a while to get working. I certainly need to learn how to get some programming course completed so I have a solid handle on all this.
Great find.
Thank You
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I have to let Blogger go…
Still hven´t got the time and courage to go for a WP blog.
Beijinho (Kiss)
I’m faced with the same predicament actually — with my personal blog. John keeps on posting WordPress awesomeness like this, I might just give in.
I’ve had this plugin for a while and I really like it because it gives a lot of options and is really easy to use.
really good tools.
anything tools like this for blogspot?
I’m sure there is, but I don’t think we’ll find them in here. I’ve tried searching for one, but to no avail.
what a great plugin!
Thanks for staying on top of WordPress for all of us John! It really helps to have someone doing the research for the rest of us
I’ll be setting this plugin up as well and hope to see some good results.
Very disappointing that a plugin called All in One SEO doesn’t come with a keyword generator.
So :twisted most evil of evil ones
: which plugin are you using to tackle that?
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Nice article on a great wordpress plugin. thanks.
Hi John. Thanks for another good plugin. Although, this does add more work for me to do with each post now.