my favorite wordpress plugin

[dgswilson]

Wanted to add this "in" somewhere but I kept running into "This thread hasn't been ... for 2, 3 months ... consider starting ,,, ". So ...

There are a lot of opinions about plugins (WP) and seo, speed and so on. I haven't ever kept any of the seo plugins I've experimented with - But - If you want a very good tool get "broken link checker".

No magic shows, no miracle cures for websites and blogs, just a good solid tool. It works, it finds broken links, it emails you when it finds broken links, it lists them on a page, gives the linked text and a link to the post. I don't use the edit function, I go to the post, fix it, go back and choose "not broken".

I trust you'll find this as useful as I have - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

[dgswilson]

Its Ok......... what do you think about "All in SEO"?
All in one seo? I tried a lot of plugins for seo that people suggested and ended up removing all of them. To me it's all clutter. The broken link checker runs intermittently then I remove links or update them and - done. I wrote in another thread I recently went back to the default style for a blog and plan to do the same with the others. It's quick and clean.

[infinity79]

All in one seo? I tried a lot of plugins for seo that people suggested and ended up removing all of them. To me it's all clutter. The broken link checker runs intermittently then I remove links or update them and - done. I wrote in another thread I recently went back to the default style for a blog and plan to do the same with the others. It's quick and clean.

I'm always using All in one SEO pack when I start a new blog. The truth is that I am not able to see wether without it installed would it have been better. Nevertheless, it does not disturb me and the site performance is not decreased (like other plugins do).

[gaga]

All in one seo pack is my favorite and useful plugin for wordpress site.

[Northwind]

All in One was my fave for SEO, but I now use Yoast's SEO plug-in.

[dgswilson]

All in One was my fave for SEO, but I now use Yoast's SEO plug-in.

I'd be tempted to use that myself. I've learned a lot from reading at "Yoast". I guess I could make a test WP install and see what the plugin adds to code.

I added another plugin recently. After a month I can say it's a keeper for me. It's called "Google XML.Sitemaps"

Makes sitemap according to default or custom settings, runs Cronjob and submits to major search engines.

Rating - Mundo Slick

[Northwind]

Yup. Definitely give Yoast a try. It's suggestive and replaces the need of several other plug-ins.

[hosting]

Have been using All in One SEO plugin for my sites and it's one of my plugins which I install for all the sites.

[retes23]

Yoast is good but I prefer All-in-One SEO used together with XML-sitemap plugin. These plugins are enough for me when it comes to onsite SEO.

[Northwind]

Yoast is good but I prefer All-in-One SEO used together with XML-sitemap plugin. These plugins are enough for me when it comes to onsite SEO.

Um....If you actually have used Yoast, then you would know it handles SEO AND XML-sitemaps...

[dare651]

All-in-One SEO all the way for me.

[Sidfromla]

Use All in one SEO and xml Sitemap on pretty much every site

[mshuong]

I love "all in one seo package" plugin, best for wordpress seo.

[FirstVector]

retes23 change avatar ;)
My best wordpress plugin is All in One SEO too and of course WP-Sitemap.

[dgswilson]

Gave yoast a try, played with the title, keyword, density stuff. Didn't not like it but I don't want to keep it installed (don't need anything else to look at)

But, today I installed "Kwayy HTML Sitemap". It's a thing of beauty. Got rid of two widgets (recent posts and pages). Now just a link to site map. It's also nice to see for myself what's there.

Side note: Got rid of meta and put link (for admin) in footer.

[ronniethedodger]

There are a lot of opinions about plugins (WP) and seo, speed and so on. I haven't ever kept any of the seo plugins I've experimented with - But - If you want a very good tool get "broken link checker".

No magic shows, no miracle cures for websites and blogs, just a good solid tool. It works, it finds broken links, it emails you when it finds broken links, it lists them on a page, gives the linked text and a link to the post. I don't use the edit function, I go to the post, fix it, go back and choose "not broken".

I trust you'll find this as useful as I have - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

Your link is broken dude. So can't really say what that does.

One piece of software I use is http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/ which does recursive and multithreaded checking and site crawling of links. It will also check external links, but not recursively (no brainer there). This will work on any site, WordPress, or not. The GUI is fantastic and very informative, will even report non-404's such as timeouts, server errors, etc.

This is software that you run from your desktop. There was a Mac version, but appears this guy does not have access to a Mac any more to develop the port. There is an older version still available however for the Mac.


All in one seo? I tried a lot of plugins for seo that people suggested and ended up removing all of them. To me it's all clutter. The broken link checker runs intermittently then I remove links or update them and - done. I wrote in another thread I recently went back to the default style for a blog and plan to do the same with the others. It's quick and clean.

Agreed on SEO plugins. Crap, what is the point? If it is for META tags for keywords and description, the easy fix there is to inject your "tags" and "excerpt" respectively into those meta values. The only SEO thing I would be concerned with is the <TITLE> in the <HEAD> ... that can be handled in a few ways, but it would be nice to have a meta-field to explicitly set that value (not for SEO purpose, but for SE result purpose ... a handcrafted title on a result page is your call-out).

[dgswilson]

I'd like to say I didn't write that link but how else would it get there? Anyway sorry about that. plugins>search>broken link checker should do it. This is what I'm using for titles and descriptions (gets rid of those duplicates), seeems to be working so far.


<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' | '; } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); if(is_home()) { echo ' | '; bloginfo('description'); } ?></title>
<?php if (is_single() || is_page() ) : if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>" />
<?php endwhile; endif; elseif(is_home()) : ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<?php endif; ?>

Using Klink Status or gURL checker since I'm using Linux OS (Mint Maya).