I’ve been considering replacing my SEO Title Tag plugin with the All-In-One SEO Pack for a few weeks now. I finally took the time to test it today, and without question the plugin is superior to the SEO Title Tag plugin. After I determined this, I quickly made the switch.

This is by far the easiest plugin to install I’ve found - even the most newbie of bloggers should be able to handle this one. If you’re a newbie and don’t know how to install plugins, this would be a great one to learn on.

Search Engine Optimization Benefits

This plugin provides several significant benefits from an SEO standpoint. The most major benefit is that it rewrites the HTML title tag for each page. You can, of course create a unique title tag, description, and keyword set for your homepage (see configuration section below to see how I customized it).

The SEO title tag plugin I used to use also created a unique title tag for each page, but was much harder to install and use than the All-In-One SEO. All you have to do to install the AIO is download, extract, upload to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate.

Install Guide For The All In One SEO Plugin

• Download the plugin. You can find a download link here: All-In-One SEO Pack Download
• Extract the plugin. Right click on the plugin with your mouse and select ‘Extract All’, ‘Extract’, or ‘Extract Here’. Click next a few times to finish the extraction.
• Upload the plugin to your wp-content/plugins folder of your blog. If you’re unfamiliar with how to do this, visit this lesson that will teach you how to do it: How To FTP Using Filezilla.
• Login to your WordPress admin and go to ‘Plugins’. Find the All in One SEO Pack and click the ‘Activate’ link next to it.

That’s it, you’ve installed it!

Customizing For Better Search Engine Optimization

You can take this plugin to the next level by customizing it properly. Here is what I did to customize it:

In your WordPress admin, go to ‘Options’ and then ‘All in One SEO’. The first thing you will want to customize are the ‘Home Title’,'Home Description’, and ‘Home Keywords’. Here’s a screen-shot of what I put in each box:

I used Make Money Online Free | Internet Marketing because it contains all of the big keywords that I’m trying to target with this blog - ‘make money online’, ‘make money online free’, and ‘internet marketing’. In the home description I wrote a sentence that they all appear in, and in the home keywords I listed each of them out. Copying this format would be wise, I’ve tested a lot of combinations with my other sites.

The next section you’ll see allows you to choose how you want the plugin to work. You definitely want it to rewrite the titles. It will by default create an HTML title in the following format: Title of Post | Title of Blog. This format is much better than the way that WordPress does it - they put the Blog Title first.

I don’t think that using categories for ‘Meta keywords’ is a good idea, it will give you too many pages with the same keywords. It would be better to leave that one unchecked. Use category description as title is also a bad idea for the same reason. Use noindex for archives and categories wouldn’t be wise in my opinion. If you haven’t read what I have to say about that you can check out this one from my archives: Supplemental Paranoia.

‘Autogenerate descriptions’ is the main reason this plugin is so valuable, so make sure you check that one. I left the max number of words at the default 25.

Using The Plugin On Individual Posts

Now that you have installed and configured the plugin, you will find a new section in your write post page.

If you put something in for the Title in this section it will override the ‘Title of Post | Title of Blog’ format. For this post I’m going to use: Plugin Upgrade - SEO Title Tag Replaced By All In One SEO | Search Engine Optimization

If you have good keywords in your post title you will leave this blank. If you don’t, I would add some in here. Keywords are where you add some useful keywords for the post you’re working on. For this post I’m going to use: search engine optimization, seo, title tag, all-in-one seo plugin.

Using this plugin alongside a search engine optimized theme will definitely make a huge difference in the amount of search engine traffic you’re able to get.