WordPress SEO By Yoast Is The Best

Yoast has surpassed all other SEO plugins on the web as the best. Created and maintained by Joost de Valk, Yoast tweaks WordPress to give search engines exactly what they need to help your content rank higher.

Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast

WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Install: Through WP Dashboard or FTP

Difficulty: Very Easy (with advanced settings)

Rating: High (1,000+ Ratings)

SEO plugins assume you are familiar with how SEO works. Using the tools in this plugin will only benefit those who understand their uses. It’s encouraged to learn more about SEO in order to use this plugin more effectively.

WordPress SEO by Yoast Features:

• Post titles and meta descriptions
• Robots Meta configuration
• Canonical
• Breadcrumbs
• Permalink clean up
• XML Sitemaps
• RSS enhancements
• Edit your robots.txt and .htaccess
• Clean up head section

To Install WordPress SEO:

1. Hover the mouse over “Plugins” on the left column, select “Add New”
2. Locate the search area and type in “WordPress SEO by Yoast”
3. To verify its the right plugin make sure it’s created by Joost de Valk
4. Click install
5. Then make sure to activate it in “Installed Plugins”.

To Configure WordPress SEO:

1. This plugin has a lot of settings. It creates an entire section called “SEO” on the left column.
2. Click “Dashboard” under the new “SEO” section to get started.
3. Here you can see a tour of how the plugin works

Functions of this plugin

You can now easily add meta titles and descriptions within each post, page, category, and tag. This makes it easy to keep duplicate generated content from being created. There are some other great options like the ability to remove the word, “Category” from the permalinks when using categories in the permalinks.