WordPress SEO Master is a free plugin that will help you optimize your WordPress site for the search engines.
Currently it contains four modules:
- Meta Module
- Nofollow Module
- Noindex Module
- AutoLinker Module
Meta Module
The Meta module allows you to:
- Enter a title tag
- Enter a meta description
- Enter meta keywords
for each individual post or page.
For the title tag you have the option to enter a title pattern that specifies how the title should be displayed. You may for example want to add your company name or blog name to the end of each title on your site. It’s possible to enter different title patterns for posts, pages, categories, archives, tags, search and 404 pages.
There is also the possibility to add a meta robots field for a specific post/page where you can tell the search engine robots whatever you want, for example <robots=”noindex,nofollow” />.
Nofollow Module
The Nofollow module allows you to tell WordPress to set the rel=”nofollow” attribute on links to individual pages, image links and external links in page content and footer text. This is good for preserving and concentrating page rank and page reputation to where it’s needed the most.
Correct use of the nofollow attribute to distribute PR to selected pages is something that can be very powerful and something that is somewhat underused in the SEO community.
Noindex Module
The Noindex module allows you to automatically add a <robots=”noindex” /> tag in all category, archive, tag and search pages as well as for the RSS-feed pages so you won’t get into trouble with the search engines because of duplicate content.
AutoLinker Module
With the AutoLinker module you will be able to tell the system to replace certain keywords with a specific URL. The AutoLinker module allows you to easily crosslink related pages by automatically replacing specific words in your posts with links to pages you want more link juice and reputation to.
Installation
To install the WordPress SEO Master plugin you just have to unzip the zip-file and copy the folder WP-SEO-Master to your plugin directory (/wp-content/plugins/) and then go to your WordPress administration console to activate the plugin through “Plugins”.
You will then have “WP SEO Master” in your administration menu. Just click on it and you can start optimizing your site for the search engines.
Compatibility
WP SEO Master has only been tested on WordPress 2.2 to 2.5 and we cannot guarantee that it will work with earlier versions, but you can try it at your own risk.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:19 am
This is an excellent SEO plugin for the Wordpress blogging platform. I also really enjoy using the category base killer to remove the /category/ part in permalinks and the yet another relevant post plugin to provide relevant\related posts underneath every post; it’s a great way to boost your internal linking. You should try those two out, make sure if you use the category base killer to 301 redirect old urls!