Wordpress SEO plugin

[julien_simon]

I just wanted to share this plugin here: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
It's the 2.0 version of all-in-one-seo. I used to have to install 4 or 5 plugins to do all of it. Now, it's all in one plugin and deserve the all-in-one-seo plugin more.

Do you use it? What special settings do you put? What do you think of it?

[williamc]

Joosts plugin has been the best since he released the first version, as far as I am concerned. Why install numerous others to do the same things that his does better?

[julien_simon]

all-ine-one seo couldn't do as much as his new one. This one allows you to set up the robots txt, the xml sitemap for example. These 2 weren't in the first all-ine-one seo.

[williamc]

Are you confusing Joosts plugin with the all-in-one plugin?

all-in-one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...-one-seo-pack/ written by Mike Torbert

Joost Devalks wordpress SEO plugin: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

2 vastly different monsters. And Joosts has been better than anything else out there since its inception to my taste.

[julien_simon]

Are you confusing Joosts plugin with the all-in-one plugin?

Perhaps

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Why bother with any "SEO" plugin at all? Why not just use a theme that is SE friendly and do the other stuff like robots.txt, redirects, etc. yourself? You can do meta data on posts using custom fields.

[julien_simon]

well, the automated xml sitemap that pings search engine is quite handy. +, from one tool, you can verify all the webmaster tools, put a template for title attribute (very useful for huge website that have duplicate title and description), set your preference of the robots text, do breadcrumbs, write custom content for your RSS feed, edit your htaccess etc...

It's quite handy to do all of this from the same tool instead to jump around to all of them and perhaps forget a couple.

[mjtaylor]

Why bother with any "SEO" plugin at all? Why not just use a theme that is SE friendly and do the other stuff like robots.txt, redirects, etc. yourself? You can do meta data on posts using custom fields.

It might be easier for clients to use All in One? And for lazier people like me?

[SteveGerencser]

Yoast has definitely taken the lead with in SEO plugin market.. You can do well with a solid WP overlay like Thesis, but for most people the plugin does everything they need and want..

[Optic]

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a Yoast fanboi.

wordpress SEO handles robots, sitemaps, title generation, RSS footer links, google verification, breadcrumbs, extended permalink modifications, import/export of settings, and has a ridiculously nice interface for authors in the editing pages like focus keyword checking the presence of the keyword and counting repetition.

It also already supports wordpress 3.1, and multisite, giving control over who can change settings, and which settings are network wide. In 3.1, it also has some quick links to the AW Keyword tool, Google insights, and SEOBook keyword research tools from the new top nav bar.

If the only thing you use it for is to make sure your authors have the tools to create decently optimized posts and pages, it's worth installing.

When I switched to Thesis for everything WP, I stopped using any SEO plugins, until this. It's MUCH more than anything else out there.