Configure the plugin in seo pack. Correct setting of the All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress. Block "Settings for custom post types"

Greetings! I have wanted to write this article for a long time, but all the time, something got in the way. But I gathered all my strength and squeezed out of myself to the maximum. Therefore, today we have as promised setting up All in One Seo Pack plugin for the popular WordPress engine.

Looked through many articles in TOP, everything is somehow boring and monotonous. There are comments why they are considering, only setting up this plugin, there are also additional modules in it that can replace some plugins. Therefore, I will try to fully open all the possibilities of this plugin.

What can All in One Seo Pack do?

Basic settings:

1. Setting up meta tags for site pages, including the home page;
2. Connecting your blog to Google Webmaster, Bing, Pinterest (the network is developing pretty quickly);
3. Connect to Google+. Your avatar will be shown in the search results;
4. Automatically generate meta-data for your pages, posts, etc., if you don't want to fill them with pens;
5. Setting up the indexing of your blog;
6. Usage, to avoid;

Other modules:

1. Generating a sitemap ();
2. Creation and configuration of the Robots.txt file;
3. Integration with social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google+;
4. Checking the system for performance;

All other settings can be left by default, as they were immediately set.

Now the plugin All in One Seo Pack ready to use. You can go to any post or page and see an additional tab below “ SEO tools”. Here you can enter title, description and keywords, you can see how your snippet will look in the search engine results. You do all the settings at your discretion.

At this stage, we have sorted out the basic settings. If something is not clear or there are doubts somewhere, write in the comments, we will figure it out together and solve the problem.

The second stage is setting up additional modules for your WordPress resource.

Configuring other modules of the plugin All in One Seo Pack.

Few people use these modules at all, but I use them often. This plugin can do a lot of work and make SEO even better.

1. Generating a sitemap(sitemap.xml). I have already touched on this topic earlier, so go to the article "" and read. You can also see in the article how to activate and deactivate these modules, so I will not focus on this.

2. We can create Robots.txt file... As soon as you activate this plugin and go to the tab, you will see the finished file. You can find out how to work with it in the article: “”. As a rule, in WordPress, this file is generated automatically, so the module is convenient because you do not need to go into the ftp client, but you can change it right here.

But if you accidentally deleted it, you can specify the path where to save this file “Directory Path” and click “Save Robots.txt File”. The Robots.txt file will be automatically created and placed in the specified location, usually the site root.

4.C speed everything is simple.

Go to the module and set the limit, the more the better, in my case the maximum is 250MB. This is necessary in order for the blog to work perfectly with a large number of requests.

Response time, do not touch, let it be by default. We change only if you can put 30 seconds or 1 minute.

We enable forced writing so that other plugins cannot change metadata.

Huh, I kind of touched on everything I wanted.

Hello friends.

In this article, we will take apart the All in one seo pack (SEO tools) plugin for blog search engine optimization, and set it up correctly.

This plugin is constantly updated, the developers add new settings, new functions. Therefore, it is often necessary to update the information about this plugin, which I am doing now.

At the moment, information about all settings is more relevant than ever. In addition, from the article you will learn how this plugin can harm the development of your blog. The article is long, since setting up All in one seo pack is not an easy procedure for a beginner. The information is worth exploring.

As you can see from the content, the material turned out to be very extensive. I hope he will answer all your questions. If any ambiguities remain, I am always glad to see you in the comments. I will answer all questions and make new materials. Now let's get down to mastering the plugin.

An important point. There was an opinion that there was a jamb in the plugin. This or that, I wrote at the very end of the article. I strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with this material.

You can download the current version of the plugin by clicking on the button below.

On the official website, click on the orange button to download the plug-in archive to your computer.

After downloading the plugin, install it. Install in any way convenient for you (wrote about the methods).

Now let's take a look at the importance of this add-on to the WordPress engine.

Why do you need the All in one seo pack plugin?

Pure WordPress does not have the ability to add meta tags to articles (title - title, description - description, keywords - keywords). If we look into the editor of any post or page without using similar SEO plugins, then besides entering the standard title and post content, there is nothing there.

This option does not suit us very much, because we need to let the search engines understand what our material is about. In this case, the meta tags mentioned earlier solve this problem.

After installing the All in one seo pack plugin or the like, a new plugin block appears in the editor, which allows you to add data to articles.

This is how the complete plugin block looks like, which is added to the editor after its installation.

In the image, I have highlighted the areas for entering a title and description. There should also be a field for entering keywords. But, since I do not use them, I disabled them.

An interesting setting in this block is the "Custom canonical URL" field, in which we can enter the main address to the page, if necessary. Thus, indicate to the search engines which address will be the main one for this page and it is it that needs to be indexed, and all other addresses at which this page is available do not need to be flattened.

I thought for a long time where to find the use of this function and here it is. It happens that you want to place an article in 2 categories at once, after which it will be available at 2 addresses and this is an obvious duplication of content within the site. To prevent this from happening, we indicate in this field the address of the article of only one heading and then the second address should not get into the index, which will save you from duplicate pages.

But nevertheless, it will be better if the article will be included in only one heading, so as not to create unnecessary headaches for search engines to index the site.

In addition, the plugin has very important parameters for configuring the correct indexing of a WordPress site. There are also settings for integrating popular and necessary services with the site.

We begin to talk about all the settings in more detail below.

Setting up All in one seo pack step by step

After installing the plugin, a new item appears in the WordPress admin panel called "SEO Tools". Go to the main plugin settings.

Let's get to the page with all the settings. Let's go through each block of settings.

First, I will list all the settings, and then give an image of how everything was done for me.

basic settings

• Thanks for the plugin, I made a donation - we don't check-box. But you can actually donate a certain amount for the development of the plugin;
• Canonical URLs - we must enable this setting. It assigns a tag to the created pages rel = "canonical", which shows search engines that this particular page is the main one and only needs to be taken into the index, and other pages should not be taken into account. This item prevents duplicate content from appearing;

• No Pagination for Canonical URLs - this setting disables pagination of pages with a tag rel = "canonical"... It is better to enable the setting. To understand this parameter in more detail, I recommend that you read the last paragraph of the article and study the entire instructions for this plugin from A to Z;

Pagination - pagination of information. On blogs, this phenomenon is clearly expressed in the form of page navigation.

• We display the title by default - select "Disable", since we will write our own titles;
• Enable Custom Canonical URLs - as written in the description for this setting, if you enable it, a field will be added for assigning the main address (adding the canonical attribute) to posts. A similar field is available in the plugin block, which is added to the post and page editor. Since this field is available in the editor even when this setting is disabled, it seems that this parameter is responsible for enabling this function in arbitrary post types (media files and other pages that can be added by third-party plugins, such as WPpage);
• Set Protocol For Canonical URLs - select the protocol for pages with the Canonical attribute, that is, for the main page addresses. I chose the HTTPS protocol option. I recommend that you set the parameter "Auto", since for the https option to work, you need to install the appropriate certificate for the domain. We will consider how to do this later;
• Use Schema.org Markup - adds markup to the page and structures the data on it. This setting can be enabled, but conflicts can arise if your site already has built-in markup from Schema.org. I have markup, so I don't include this setting;
• Keep an event log - if we want to monitor the plugin's work, we can enable this setting. Then the whole process of the plugin will be recorded in a separate file all_in_one_seo_pack.log.

Home page settings

At this point, we just need to register the title, description and keywords that describe the site.

• Home page title - write the name of the site. I wrote it like this: "Personal blog of Konstantin Khmelev about creating sites (blogs), setting them up and promoting them on the Internet";
• Description of the main page - write a small description of the site. Write down what your site is about or what the visitor will find on it. Here's my variation: "On this blog you will find a lot of useful information about creating, setting up and promoting sites (blogs) on the Internet";
• Key words of the main page - I did not fill in this line, so for frequent use of keys you can get sanctions from search engines;

And it has been said for a long time that this meta-tag (keywords) is no longer taken into account by search engines. I prefer to let the search engines make their own choices and figure out the whole situation. In addition, everything will be natural and you will not have to correct the situation later in case of any problems or falling under the filters.

Key settings

This setting is responsible for keywords for posts and pages.

Above, I wrote that I do not use keywords. I made this decision in view of several reasons:

1. For the illiterate use of key phrases, you can fall under the sanctions of search engines, since this can be taken into account as manipulation by the site owner;
2. We need to let the search engines figure out the whole situation on their own. To do this, search engines are constantly updating their algorithms, which are becoming smarter and will only keep high positions on SOMs (sites for people);
3. Well, as mentioned above, there is an opinion that the keys have not been taken into account by search engines for a long time, and sometimes the situation is aggravated for their use when promoting a resource.

Therefore, I turned off the ability to prescribe keywords.

After disabling this function, in the reactor for adding pages and records, the field for entering keywords will not be present.

Customizing headers

In this item, the display of headers is configured:

• records;
• pages;
• heading;
• archives;
• tags;
• 404 pages;
• search pages.

All settings will not be touched. And here's what needs to be done.

• Overwrite headers - enable;
• Capitalized headings - check-box;
• Headings with uppercase - put a check-box;
• Format for pages - you need to remove the part of the code that displays the name of the blog. This information in the title is completely unnecessary and does not carry any semantic meaning. You need to remove the part of the code that follows the vertical bar (% blog_title%). We also remove the line;
• The format for records is similar to the format for pages.

You can also change the title for the 404 page. Replace the English phrase "Nothing found for" into Russian "No results found for".

Similarly, in the "Format for navigation" section, change the word "Part" on word "Part".

See the screenshot below for more details.

Settings for custom post types

If you use any content formats on your blog other than regular posts and pages, then you can enable this setting. These can be WPPage subscription pages as an option. Then you can write meta data for such pages (subscription, selling).

I don't use anything like that. Therefore, the setting for arbitrary post types is disabled for me.

Appearance settings

In this block, we configure where the fields for entering the title, description and keywords will be displayed. By default, they are displayed in the post and page editor. I believe that this should be the case, therefore, we leave the settings in the "Show SEO settings for post types" item.

• The first item is responsible for displaying the "SEO Tools" menu in the top admin bar on each blog page;

• The second item is responsible for displaying the "SEO Tools" item at the top of the WordPress admin panel. If enabled, this item will be displayed at the top, if disabled - at the bottom;

Here, of course, we choose how you like. I am more impressed by the option below.

Settings for Webmaster

When adding your site to the Google and Yandex webmasters panel, you need to confirm ownership of the site. This is usually done by uploading a special file to the root of the site or by adding a special tag to all pages of the site.

All of these procedures require technical skills.

This paragraph greatly simplifies the verification of ownership of the site. You just need to enter a special verification code in the appropriate fields, after which the rights will be confirmed.

The only moment that I really do not like is the lack of the possibility of verifying rights for Yandex. Let's hope that this shortcoming will be corrected soon.

Google services settings

Also a very useful point. But, perhaps, one of the most difficult in this plugin. Requires some knowledge of the Google search engine services.

Despite this, it simplifies the work and saves us from the same work as in the previous paragraph "Settings for Webmasters". Now there is no need in the template files to register links to your profile on the social network Google+, which is necessary to confirm authorship in the Google search engine.

It is also possible to connect the site to the Google Analytics statistics tracking system. Now there is no need to place the code in the site files.

Below is a screenshot of my settings.

I will return to this point shortly when I write detailed material on the Google Analytics statistics tracking service. I recommend not to skip this article.

Indexing settings (noindex)

There are a lot of pages on WordPress sites that create duplicate content. Such pages must be hidden from indexing, and this item helps a lot with this.

I will not describe these settings in detail. Let me just say that the last 2 settings should not be active. See the image below.

Recently I have disabled the "Use nofollow for paginated pages / posts." This was done so that the search engine robots could go to the articles themselves on the pagination pages. Thus, we facilitate access to the content for the PS robots. In addition, I analyzed popular resources; nowhere are these settings used on pagination pages. From this I made the following conclusions.

Additional settings

At this point, the only thing you need to pay attention to is generated description.

We register all the data for our materials by hand. Therefore, this setting should be disabled.

This completes the settings for the All in one seo pack plugin.

After all the changes made, be sure to save the settings by clicking on the "Update settings" button.

If something is not clear to you from the text version of the article up to this point, then I provide you with my video tutorial on setting up this plugin. But there may be some differences in the text version and in the video. In the text, I described and showed everything in more detail and more clearly. Watch the video below.

After making the settings that are applied to the entire site, I will say a few words about the settings of the "SEO Tools" block that appears in the post and page editor after installing the plugin.

Setting up the "SEO Tools" block in the editor

How this block looks like, I showed at the very beginning of the article. But, just in case, I'll show you here.

Let's take a quick look at each setting.

• Preview - at this point we can view the view of the snippet, which is formed depending on the data entered in the "Title" and "Description" fields. In the SERP, the snippet may differ, since search engines can choose any most suitable piece of text for the most accurate description of the article (page);
• Post title - enter the title of the post, which will be displayed in the search engine results, as well as in the browser tab;
• Record description - displayed only for search engines. Should appear in the snippet, but not always (see above);
• Keywords - this field is not visible in the screenshot above, since I disabled it. But by default it is present and it is necessary to write in it the keywords (phrases) by which the page is promoted. The plugin says that it is necessary to write it separated by commas, but the option also works "separated by a space";
• Custom Canonical URL - if it is necessary to indicate its main address to the created page (if it differs from the created one), then enter it in this field. At the beginning of the article, I already wrote why this is needed. Alternatively, it can be useful in a situation if the article falls into 2 categories. Then it is imperative to indicate the main address of the article from one heading so that the second address does not get into the index and duplicate content does not appear at different addresses;
• Add NOINDEX argument - if there are external links on the page, you can enable this setting and they will all be closed with the noindex tag. Thus, we will close the links from indexing;
• Add an argument NOFOLLOW - gives a signal to search engine robots not to follow external links;
• Robots Meta NOODP - enable the option to prevent search engines from using page descriptions from the Open Directory Project (This is an open directory of sites, also known as dmoz);
• Robots Meta NOYDIR - the same as the previous one only for the Yahoo! dir;
• Disable SEO - enable this checkbox so that all settings from the "SEO Tools" block for this entry will be disabled.

Important note: the settings for adding noindex and nofollow arguments do not completely block links from indexing. Even with these settings, links harm your site. Therefore, links must be closed in other ways. This will be one of the next blog posts. Wait!

On this, I completely finished the process of setting up and describing the plugin, with the exception of the additional modules that it contains. These modules can also be useful for beginners.

I don't use them, but they are still quite interesting, since they allow you to do some functions without directly interfering with the files of the site on the hosting. Everything can be done through these modules.

In the near future I will definitely add all the necessary information in the most detailed form.

Finally, I left the sweetest. As promised, I will briefly describe the hole in this plugin that can harm your blog.

A jamb in the plugin, is it true or not?

I decided to supplement this article with my observations and reasoning about the jamb, which allegedly showed up in the plugin after the release of version 2.0.

The "jamb" was not discovered by me. I am only now expressing my opinion and my practical observations. Alexander Borisov started all this. Here is his article about this "jamb".

It concerns not entirely correct operation of the previously considered rel = "canonical" tag.

In new versions of the plugin, this tag does not fully finalize its function. The tag is well written on all pages of the blog, but a situation may arise when, due to the incorrect operation of this tag in conjunction with the incorrect configuration of the plugin, completely unnecessary pages may appear in the search engine output.

Let's see what is the matter. As an example, I will take this page where you are currently reading this article. Let's go through the source code (ctrl + u) and find the rel = "canonical" tag. We should see a link to our article after this tag. Here's what it shows.

Everything is fine here. And now let's add an addition like "/ 111" or any other numbers to the link to this article. That is, at the end of the link we put "/ 111" and go to the same address, only with the added part in the form of a line with numbers. At the exit, we will remain on the same page with exactly the same content. But look at the address of the page. You will see that at the end of the link there is our added part in the form of numbers.

It seemed to be nothing, it seemed. The rel = "canonical" tag should indicate on this page that the main page is the one without numbers and that it is necessary to take it into the index, and not this one with numbers. But let's look at the situation as it is.

We look at the source code of the page already with the new address and see what our tag is responsible for the canonical URL "s. In theory, we should see the same thing as before. But in fact, we can see the following picture.

See what our tag does? He indicates that this page is the main one, although it is not. Moreover, it also shows the address of the previous page with the numbers "/ 110". If somehow such a page gets into the index, then all the others with similar addresses will be picked up. And this is already a very large number of pages with duplicate content.

The plugin will assign a tag to such a "non-main" page if the "No Pagination for Canonical URLs" setting is not active in the main settings.

But even with this setting turned off, the pages themselves will not be included in the index. I write about this a little below.

If we put a checkbox in front of this setting, then on each such page the plugin will always indicate the main page with the main address, which is what we need. Therefore, I will put this setting.

If we now look at the source code for the / 111 page, we can see that rel = "canonical" points to the main page without any numbers.

With this, I hope sorted out.

You can ask: "But how does such a page (c / 111, etc.) end up in the index, if in fact it does not exist, and we just added some numbers there?".

Honestly, if you do everything carefully and correctly, then such pages will not be included in the index. Such pages are essentially pagination pages, as far as I have been able to find out by experimentation. If you configured the plugin as I described above, then it should add a robots meta tag to such pagination pages, which gives a strict instruction to search engines not to index the page.

The last 2 active checkboxes in the plugin's indexing settings are responsible for this.

This tag can be seen in the source code of the page.

Therefore, if you have these 2 settings set, then you can rest assured. Such pages will not be included in the index by themselves. This tag gives a strict ban to search engines.

Even if you do not enable the "No Pagination for Canonical URLs" setting, then nothing bad will happen. They will be labeled with a robots.

How else can such pages get into the index?

Here I see 2 variants of events:

1. Your competitors will want to annoy you and will add your pages with such addresses to the index using the Yandex and Google URL add tool. But here is immediately a dubious question: "Will search engines index such a page after adding it through the URL adding tools if they have a robots met-tag?"... So far I find it difficult to answer this question. But it seems to me that all the same, PS will not index the page, since it has a strict ban in the form of a robots tag;
2. Possibly some kind of glitch in the WordPress engine or plugin.

So is it worth worrying about this problem and is it a problem?

What did we learn earlier? It turned out that the canonical tag does not work quite correctly, if you can call it that. But it also turned out that on pages that can harm us and get into the index in the form of duplicate content, you can put a robots meta tag, which is a strict prohibition from indexing for search engines.

Based on this, we can conclude that such pages are not scary to us. Unless our competitors can use URL adding tools to help such pages get into the index. The only question is one: "Will the strict prohibition of the robots meta tag in the video play a role in this case?".

I will look for an answer to this question and tell you about everything!

Now let's answer one of the main questions in the discussion of this question: "So keep the plugin All in one seo pack?"

I won't change it yet. And that's why.

First, I don't see anything dangerous in his work yet. I can't call this a cant. I can only justify this as a kind of work of the plugin. There are such pages, but they will not be included in the index themselves (see above). Maybe I'm wrong and time will tell. Maybe someone knows what? Write in the comments.

Secondly, by enabling the "No Pagination for Canonical URLs" setting, the plugin perfectly specifies the main page address.

Thirdly, I analyzed just one well-visited resource (4000 visitors per day), which has the All in one seo pack plugin. It works exactly the same. There are no such pages in the index. And the setting of canonical addresses on it is generally disabled. And the resource is developing steadily.

Take a look at the blog ktonanovenkogo.ru. It also has All in one seo pack. A resource with good traffic and indexing is all right.

For these reasons, I will not remove this SEO plugin yet. But, the rather large "stuffing" of the plugin with various unnecessary things for me gives reason to think about moving to another lighter analog that works great.

If you want to completely play it safe, then you can put a plugin on your blog. All data to articles can be transferred from All in one seo pack with one click and is also easy to set up. The next article will be about him. Wait.

These are my arguments and practical observations about this "jamb". What's your opinion?

And this is where I end this article. It came out very extensive. Hope you figured it out. If something is not clear, then I am waiting for you in the comments.

By the way, write your SEO plugin that you use on your site. After all, there are enough of them. I would like to know your choice.

Thanks. See you soon in other materials.

Best regards, Konstantin Khmelev.

All in one SEO pack is probably the most popular SEO plugin for Wordpress, and possibly the oldest. According to publishers, the All in one SEO pack plugin has been downloaded over 30 million times since 2007. I, like most WordPress users, once started my website SEO with the All in one SEO pack. It has a huge number of different functions and settings. To tell the truth, there are so many of them that some are beginning to repeat themselves, some are not clear why they were created, and some have nothing to do with SEO at all. In this article, we will try to understand all these functions and settings, and for one thing we will find out whether it is really as good as it is written everywhere.

All in one SEO pack plugin settings

At the time of this writing, the plugin version 2.3.12 is available. You can download the plugin from wordpress.org/plugins. After installing the All in one SEO pack plugin, a section titled "All in one SEO" will appear in the administrative panel menu and there are only 4 subsections "Basic settings", "Performance", "Blocker of harmful bots" and "Module management" in it. All SEO settings are located in the "General Settings" subsection. Performance and Malicious Bot Blocker are optional add-ons already included. They are not directly related to SEO, but are designed to speed up the loading of the site, which in turn should improve the position in the search results.

1. Canonical URLs: - enabled by default and this is correct, since the URL created for the article / page must be the main one, and all other duplicates (such as archives, etc.) must be secondary. If the search engine does not know which address is the main one, then it will not know how to rank them, and not an article, but for example an archive copy of it, may appear in the search results.

2. Disable pagination for canonical URLs: - disabled by default. Strange point. The URL includes the page number into which the entire list of addresses is split. It looks like this: http://domennoe_imja.ru/2/nazvanie_posta.html. The number two in the URL is the result of pagination. In my opinion, it not only does not add an understanding of where the final object is, it also lengthens the URL unnecessarily. I think this point is superfluous and useless. We disable this function, that is, put a check mark.

3. Include custom canonical URLs: - also not clear point, but maybe someone will need it. When enabled, an additional field appears where you can enter a custom URL for a specific post.

4. Use default header: - the function is disabled by default. You may need to enable if your theme or other active plugins on your site prevent All in one SEO pack from updating title tag entries. According to the logic of events, the title of the article should be used in the snippet. But the All in one SEO pack plugin allows you to replace the title in the snippet with something else, possibly more attractive or relevant. Here you will navigate yourself according to the situation with your set of plugins.

5. Use Schema.org markup - enabled by default. New feature designed to improve SEO for foreign search engines. May create errors in the formation of the html code of the page. If your site is not aimed at a foreign audience, then it is better to disable the function, for the purity of the code.

6. Keep event log: - creates a log file of events occurring inside All in one SEO pack when the plugin is updated. Mostly used for debugging.

7. Title of the main page: - This field sets the title for the main page of the site (title tag). The maximum length of the name is only 57 characters. Although as far as I know, many search engines understand 70 characters well. The number of symbols used is calculated by the plugin and displayed in the window below.

8. Description of the main page: - This field sets the description of the main page of the site (description tag). Like the previous field, the characters used are counted and displayed in a small window. The recommended number of description characters is not more than 160.

9. Use (instead of) a static main page - the function works only when the item is enabled in the settings of wordpress / read / Display / static page on the main page. When you check the box to enable in this section, items 7 and 8 for the dynamic page will disappear. And when editing a Static page, you will be able to enter a title, description and keywords for a specific static page. It seems to me that the implementation of this function is somewhat complicated and confusing.

The Title Settings section initially consists of two items "Overwrite titles" and "Capitalize tags and search titles". But everything changes when you turn on 10 points.

10. Overwrite titles: - The item is intended for setting templates for displaying titles of the main page, other pages, posts, headings, archives, etc. together with the name of the blog, as well as setting the types of separators. If you set the value to include, then the site name specified in the template or in the WordPress itself will be added to the specified names of articles, posts, categories, ... In principle, the settings are already set correctly and you do not need to touch items 12-24, but if you want to change something, then you need to know the WordPress directives well.

11. Capitalize tags and search titles: - enabled by default. Checks for the presence of capital letters in the names of tags, archives, categories, ... In my opinion, this is a strange point, since I have not yet met templates where the names of archives, categories, ..., begin with a small letter. They usually begin with either a capital letter, or are written in full capital letters.

25. SEO for Custom Post Types: - In this section, you can enable or disable SEO settings for custom post types. In the off state, items 26 - 28 are not visible.

26. SEO only for these types of posts: - in this section you can set the types of posts that will be affected by SEO actions.

27. Enable advanced options: - enables or disables advanced settings.

28. Show SEO settings for custom post types: - allows you to enable user post types for which you want to display SEO status right in the post lists.

In paragraphs 29 - 31, your rights to the site are checked for webmasters Google, Bing, Pinterest, by entering a verification code. To do this, you need to register in each system and get a code. Enter the received codes each in your own field and click the "Update settings" button. After that, in the webmaster of each system, a message should appear that the rights to the site have been confirmed.

Google+ account settings consist of the following items:

32. Google+ Profile: - Allows you to enter the URL of your Google+ account.

33. Disable Google+ Profile: - Disables the Google+ field located in your profile in the Users section.

34. Display site links in the search box: - according to the documentation, this item should make content search easier for users. But in order to implement it, you need to install and configure a working search engine on your site. Which, in general, is not as easy as intended.

35. Set your preferred site name: - allows you to change the site name right here. Duplicates the function available in the WordPress itself in the general settings section.

Display Publisher Tag on Home Page - This option allows you to specify whether the publisher tag should appear on the home page of the site. When turned on, the following field appears.

"Specify Publisher URL" - The attributes of the "publisher" tag will display the specified account URL, preferably a Google+ profile for your business.

37. Google Analytics ID: - Enter the Google Analytics ID here.

38. By default NOINDEX - do not show in search results.

39. By default NOFOLLOW - do not index links.

40. Default NOODP - Tells search engines like Google not to use the Open Directory project as a source for generating titles and descriptions in search results.

41. Default NOYDIR - Tells search engines such as Google not to use Yahoo! Directory as a source for generating titles and descriptions in search results.

31 - 41 these are the default settings not to index posts, pages, media files and they are unchecked. You can prohibit indexing of any type of content if the need arises.

42. Use noindex for headings: - already enabled

43. Use noindex for date archives: - already enabled

45. Use noindex for tag archives: - you need to enable

46. ​​Use noindex for the search page: - leave it as it is

47. Use noindex for 404 pages: - leave it as it is

48. Use noindex for pages / posts with pagination: - better enable

49. Use nofollow for pages / posts with pagination: - better enable

50. Exclude a site from the Open Directory Project: - almost a repeat of paragraph 40

51. Remove site from Yahoo! Directory: - repeat step 41

52. Avoid using excerpts in descriptions: - Disables random passages of text in the snippet.

53. Auto-generated descriptions: - enables generation of descriptions in a snippet from the first lines of any paragraph. This is essentially the opposite of the previous point. When you turn it on, another item "Use shortcodes in auto-generated descriptions" appears. Which allow you to designate sections of text that most closely match the description of a given topic, and guarantee their display in the snippet.

54. Remove descriptions from pages with pagination: - if your huge article is split into pages, then it leaves the description of the article only on the first page of the article, and deletes it on all the rest.

55. Never abbreviate long descriptions: - for ease of perception of the description by search engines, descriptions are shortened to 160 characters. Enabling this item allows you to set a description of any length that will not be limited.

56. Unprotected META-fields: - According to the description, it is completely unclear what this point allows to do. But the help to this point clearly states, if you do not understand why this is, then leave it unchecked.

57. Redirecting Attachments to Parent Record: - Redirects the URL of the attachment (eg image) to the URL of the parent record.

58. Exclude Pages: - Do not display pages or articles. The list is entered separated by commas. Articles and pages remain editable.

59. Add. post title: - an additional title will be displayed on all posts.

60. Add. page title: - an additional title will be displayed on all pages.

61. Add. main page title (static): - an additional title will be displayed on the first static page of the site.

62. Add. the title of the main page of the blog: - in essence, the description is a repetition of paragraph 61.

Next comes the keyword settings section, and it's kind of anomalous. If you include 63 points, then three more points 64 - 66 appear. Which, in my opinion, do not add the quality of the keys, but can only be misleading.

63. Use keywords: - includes keyword support for all posts and pages on the site.

64. Use headings as keys: - disabled by silence and rightly so. Enabling this item causes the category name for the post to be used as keywords for that same item (in addition to any keywords specified in the post edit screen). As you can imagine, the name of a category or heading may differ significantly from the title of the topic of the article, which can not only not give a positive search result, but also worsen the behavioral factor for the site.

65. Use labels as keys: - this item is enabled by default. But I also do not consider it useful as well as the previous one. It allows the tags for this entry to be used as keywords for that post (in addition to any keywords specified in the post edit screen). Tags are intended for the convenience of finding information on a specific site, where the topic and the number of articles is limited. Therefore, using tags as keys to search the entire Internet is not entirely appropriate, which, again, can negatively affect the behavioral factor. It needs to be disabled.

66. Generate dynamically keywords for a page with publications / archives: - allows to display keywords on a page with publications (set in the WordPress settings, in the section Reading, page display) and archive pages to dynamically generate from the keywords shown on that page. If unchecked, the keywords set in the message edit screen will be used. It should be disabled as the result is unpredictable and of little use.

This completes the SEO settings of the All in one SEO pack plugin. Now it's time to see what we have added in the article editor. Somewhere this SEO must be connected. A section titled All in one SEO pack appeared below the text in the editor.

The first item is the snippet preview. The snippet is already partially formed. It already includes your article title and URL. There is no description yet, but it will appear when you fill in the "Description" item. Here you will need to enter a clear, relevant description of your article. It won't actually show up in the snippet, but it will show you how your article will look in search results. And the same description will go into the meta description of your article and will play a significant role in its indexing and ranking. So the description should be very thoughtful and the description must include the main search key for which the article is being optimized.

The "Title" item allows you to completely change the title of the snippet, but in fact it is better not to do this. And use the headline length indicator and try to add something useful to it, perhaps add a keyword or a call to action and then transfer the resulting structure to the heading of the article. The "Title" field itself must be filled in, since its content will go into the title parameter. If the field is left blank, then All in one SEO pack will substitute the title of the article, which is generally correct.

If the "Use keywords" item is enabled in your settings, then the item "

"" - ask search robots not to index this page;

"" - ask search robots not to follow the links on the page;

"" - ask search engines not to use descriptions from the Open Directory Project for your site;

"" - to ask Yahoo! do not use descriptions from Yahoo! catalog for your site.

Next is "" - which means completely Disable SEO for this page. I don't know why this might be needed, but there is such a point. And what is interesting, when you turn it on, another strange point is added "

That's all. No automation, no tips or recommendations, no assessments. There is nothing. But I want to know what is being done and for what purpose and how the optimization is performed with high quality. There is none of this.

Performance Settings

67. Increase Memory Limit - This option allows you to increase the memory limit for PHP execution. I think the point is superfluous, since the WordPress core can also change the value of the memory limit. Also, this option may not work on some servers where memory change is closed.

68. Increase Execution Time - This option allows you to increase the PHP execution time. It can be helpful if you get a timeout error when trying to execute functions in your WordPress admin panel or website.

69. Forced overwrite: - allows to use output buffering for writing the meta title. Some themes and plugins will overwrite other meta titles because they are executed after the All in one SEO pack is executed.

Next is the gorgeous "System State" section, which has nothing to do with SEO at all, but collects information in great detail about everything that you have installed on the server. Its window looks like this:

There is definitely some useful information. For example, the points we talked about just above. I emphasized them. It is worth paying attention to the server type and the MYSQL and PHP versions. Well, this is in order to know what exactly we are dealing with. Maybe they need to be replaced with others or even change the hoster, if he is not capable.

Further, if you scroll down the contents of the window, a list will open with active and unused, but installed plugins, as well as their versions. Well, I don't know why all this is done if we have a plugin management section. There are their names and versions, descriptions and controls, the ability to edit files. Probably the inventors had nothing to do. So they decided to create such a masterpiece, borrowing it from another plugin.

The next module is 81 "Blocker of harmful bots". For the life of me, I don’t understand how bots and their blocking have to do with SEO. Normally, this is already the security of the site. Well, let's see what we have in this area.

Malicious bots blocker settings

70. Blocking harmful bots using HTTP - blocking requests from user agents who are known for pampering with 503.

71. Block referral spam using HTTP - block referral spam using HTTP.

72. Tracking Blocked Bots - Displays the records of the latest requests from blocked bots. When enabled, item 75 appears, which is a log of requests for blocked bots.

73. Use your own blacklist - allows you to edit the list of banned user agents to block harmful bots. When you turn it on, 74 item appears, which already contains 137 records. You can also add well-known bots there.

74. Blacklist of user agents - directly a blacklist of bots that can be edited.

75. Logging of blocked bots - a log of records of last requests from blocked bots.

Now we pass to the last subsection of the main menu of the plugin "Manage modules". There are 7 modules available in our free version, which you can enable and get additional functions. In fact, these are 7 additional plugins.

The following module controls the settings for the sitemap xml sitemap.

Setting up Sitemap xml for WordPress

76. XML Sitemap - allows you to create an XML sitemap. When you click on the "Activate" button, in the main menu of the plugin between the second and third subsections, another one with the name "XML Sitemap" appears. By clicking on it, go to the XML Sitemap settings.

84. Sitemap status - by clicking on the inscription "view sitemap" we will receive a sitemap in xml format. Which displays all entries, pages, priorities, frequencies and dates of the last update.

85. File prefix - preset file name. The default is "sitemap". I don’t even understand why you need to press this parameter to change, if this is exactly what all search engines are looking for. You don't need to change anything.

86. Update on schedule - Probably a translation error. Here, not to update, but to notify Google and Bing about changes on the site. Depending on the intensity of work carried out on the site, you can set the following values ​​"Daily", "Weekly" and "Monthly".

87. Enable indexing of the sitemap - Due to incorrect translation, you might think that indexing of the map by search engines is disabled here, which would be quite foolish to agree. In fact, this item allows you to create sitemap indexes, that is, additional maps, after the number of URLs in the main file reaches 50,000 or its volume is 10 MB. After enabling this item, one more item will appear with the name "Page navigation of the map", which just allows you to create new pages of the sitemap. And after turning it on, another item will appear with the name "Maximum number of publications on the site map", where 50,000 URLs are already set by default. But this number can be reduced.

88. Post types and 89. Taxonomies - These two items allow you to create a URL in the sitemap for each post type and category. Items "All post types" and "All Taxonomies" enable or disable all types at once. I would understand the need for such buttons if there were more than 20 types of types. But to turn on or off three buttons in my opinion is not a problem.

If you enable the rest of the items, addresses in the sitemap will be created for each type of post. And if the "Pagination map navigation" item is enabled, separate maps will be created with the name for "Posts" - "sitemap_post", "Pages" - "sitemap_page", "Media / Attachments" - "sitemap_attachment", Headings "-" sitemap_category ", "Tags" - "sitemap_post_tag", which will include the new addresses of all duplicates of all content.

It is difficult to understand the need to create additional addresses for existing articles. But this innovation is relatively well supported by Google. In any case, he does not perceive critically. But Yandex does not want to understand this. The situation is as follows. For example, we create a main map where article addresses look like "http: // site_domain_name / article_name /" - this is normal, it should be so. And let us create a tag map in which the same articles have a different address "http: // site_domain_name / tag / article_name".

We immediately have duplicate articles with different addresses, but absolutely the same content. Yandex naturally doesn't like it. And this is understandable, not compliance with the rules on the quality of content. The rating of articles and the site as a whole goes down. If there are many articles, then the same number of duplicates. How do you like the situation? How much do you think the site's ranking will drop? The situation with the rubrics is no better. Duplicates of announcements and pages with announcements are created. Any duplicates for Yandex are very bad.

Now another trouble is perhaps even more terrible. Permission to include "Media / Attachments" in the sitemap leads to the fact that all your pictures are not formatted as files, but as a separate article with a separate address, named by the file name, but completely without content, only a picture. It looks like this:

Now estimate how many pictures you have on your site. This means that the Yandex index on your site contains thousands of articles with zero content and one image. How do you think Yandex will react? Of course the AGS. And this is not an assumption. This is a stage already passed. My site has already experienced this. For almost two years I was under the AGS and I could not even imagine that the sitemap was to blame for everything. So I recommend turning everything off in order to avoid problems with Yandex. And leave only Posts and Pages.

90. Include archives for the day and 91. Include pages for authors - add records of the date of archives and authors of articles, which also leads to the creation of duplicates. Disabled by default, which is good.

92. Create a compressed version of the sitemap - the sitemap is immediately archived in .gz format.

94. Dynamic sitemap - The sitemap is generated anew every time it is requested. The function is good, since the content of the map is always fresh and relevant. But for a normal plugin, the map should be updated automatically after each content update. It turns out that the function is also unnecessary.

The following picture shows that additional pages can be added to the map:

In the window under the page URL, you can add the address of a page that does not belong to your site but is connected to it from another resource. These can be contact forms, helpdesks, etc.

The following figure suggests the categories to be excluded from the sitemap. The list you see is a list of the headings of my test bench. You will have it completely different.

In this section, you can exclude headings by name or list the addresses of the pages separated by commas that you want to exclude from the sitemap.

The following figure provides the option to set the priorities for updating map data for the following objects:

Priorities are usually set for the Main Page 1 this is the maximum, For Entries within 0.7-0.9, for Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, Archives) 0.1-0.3 this is the minimum, since they are the least likely to change and do not matter much.

The following figure provides the option to set the refresh rate for the data in the map.

The update frequency is set based on the frequency of changes. If you write articles one at a time every day, then you can set the frequency for articles to "daily". If you post more articles and often revise older articles, you can set the frequency to "hourly". For taxonomies, a "monthly" update rate is appropriate.

The next module manages the settings for social networks.

77. Social Meta - allows you to manage social meta data for better interaction of your site with Facebook, Twitter and Google+. When this module is activated, an additional subsection "Social Meta" appears in the "All in one SEO" menu. After turning it on, the settings open.

Settings for social networks

95. Include shortcodes in the header - enabling this option ensures that the shortcodes in the title of posts or pages will be launched.

96. Use shortcodes in description - enabling this option guarantees that the shortcodes in the description of posts or pages will be launched, provided that the next 97 item "Auto-generation of OG descriptions" is included.

97. OG description autogeneration - enabling this item will automatically generate descriptions for each page or message from any excerpt.

98. Use AIOSEO title and description - enabling this option will use the Title and Description for the Home page that are set on the All in one SEO pack General Settings screen. Enabling this item will close access to items 100 and 101.

99. Site name is the name used to identify your website.

100. Heading house. Pages - If you add something here, it will appear on social networks as the title of your home page.

101. Description of the house. pages - if you add something here, it will be displayed on social networks as a description of your home page.

102. Image of the house. Pages - here you can add an image that will be displayed in the social media post about your website home page. Instead of an image, you can enter the URL of an image located on another site.

103. Select source OG: Image - Use the drop-down list to select the default image as OG: image for post or page:

• Default image - the default image OG of the image on the Social Meta settings page will be used;
• Recommended image - use the image from the post;
• Attached Image - Use the first attached image to the post (media attachment);
• First image in content - use the first image found in the content of the post;
• Image from custom field - use the image specified in the custom field (the field name is specified in the settings);
• Post Author's image - the avatar of the post / page author will be used;
• Available image - automatically selected;

104. Use default image if no other is found - this parameter means that if an image is not found using the option in item 103, the image specified in item 105 will be used by default.

105. OG: Image by default - allows you to select an image from the media library or upload an image or URL for an image to be used as the default OG.

106. Image default width - this option allows you to set the default width for images where none is specified, which will be used for social media. Each social media network has its own preferred image size. For example, Facebook wants to receive images 1200 pixels wide. Please enter only numbers here, for example: 1200.

107. Default Image Height - This option allows you to set the default image height for images where it is not defined, which will be used for social media. Each social media network has its own preferred image size. For example, Facebook wants to receive images with a height of 630 pixels. Please enter only numbers here, for example: 630.

108. Use custom fields for image - allows you to use this field to select a custom field OG: image. Enter a name for the custom field in this window.

111. Associated name - In this field you can add the name of the person or the name of the organization that owns these profiles.

Paragraphs 110 and 111 are related to micro-markup, which is designed to improve the appearance of your site and ranking in Google search results, of course, by performing presets in Google.

112. Facebook Admin ID - enter your Facebook Admin ID here. You can find your Facebook ID using this service: https://findmyfbid.com/.

113. Facebook App ID - Enter the developer ID here. You can find information on how to get your Facebook App ID at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/register/. Probably useful for those who develop applications for Facebook. An ordinary user does not need this.

114. Facebook data type - Open Graph determines what type of site you have - site, blog or articles. Set this option according to what you specified in the Settings / Reading section, on the Home Page Recent Posts (blog) or static page (website).

115. Automatically generate tags for articles - allows you to automatically generate tags for Facebook articles when they are not specified. Article tags will be generated from Tags, Categories, or Post Keywords based on the three items that appear when this option is enabled: "Use keywords in article tags", "Use categories in article tags", "Use post tags in tags articles".

116. Enable Facebook Meta For - here you can choose which post types you want to use All in One SEO Pack to set the Open Graph of meta values.

117. Show the publisher's Facebook in articles - here you can enter a link to the Facebook page associated with your site.

119. Records Data type (post) and 120. Pages Data type (page) - you must select a default value that better describes the content of the record. The list is quite long and if you choose the wrong type, then an error message may be generated.

Finally, the All in one SEO pack settings for Facebook are over. There were so many of them that it seems as if Facebook is not being used to promote the site, but the site is becoming an additional tool for working on Facebook.

121. Default Twitter Card - With Twitter cards, you can attach large photos, videos and media to help tweet more traffic to your site.

122. Site Twitter - This is where you enter the Twitter username associated with the site. The name is entered with the @ symbol at the beginning.

123. Show Twitter author - after enabling this item, the "Twitter" item will appear in the Users menu, where you can enter the name of your Twitter account. This will allow authors to identify themselves with their Twitter accounts as content creators on Twitter cards for their posts.

124. Twitter domain - enter the domain name for your site here without HTTP: //.

The last item in the settings of social networks is "Scanning social meta". It is designed to detect problems caused by re-generating the Open Graph meta tag. The point is that some plugins and themes can also display Open Graph meta tags. The scanner itself does not fix the problem, it only detects its presence. If there is a problem, you yourself will need to find those plugins or themes that overlap with the settings of social networks in the All in one SEO pack and determine what you need and leave the rest, and disable the rest.

After completing all the settings for social networks, it is worth looking at what we get and where we can use it. In the article editor, below the text in the All in one SEO pack section, an additional tab appears next to the main settings with the name "Social Settings".

Paragraphs Article title and description of Open Graph. The image item allows you to select an Open Graph image for the article, from those that are in the article itself. The "Custom Image" item allows you to upload any other image. "" - Enter the width of the Open Graph image in pixels eg 800. "All in one SEO pack - Create Robots.txt

Here is a window for creating a Robots.txt file. In fact, it is a constructor, but only a curve curve. In the normal constructor, took the object set. Did not like. Removed the object. Here, firstly, you still need to write, and secondly, you cannot make mistakes, since it is impossible to delete anything, only the entire file as a whole. Records are formed as follows: in the "" field from the drop-down menu, select the "Allow" or "Disallow" directive. Only "Disallow" is somehow called "Block", which is already misleading.

Next, in the "" field, write the name of the agent, i.e. what comes after the User-agent directive, for example * or Yandex. In the "" field, enter the path, but not all, but only a part starting from the root folder of the wordpress, for example / wp-admin /. And click the "Add Rule" button. A new entry will appear at the end of the file content field. It looks like this:

The file turns out to be very long and stupid. No, it is working, but not optimized at all, very long, full of repetitive directives. So this invention is completely useless, if not to say that it is harmful. It's easier and easier to do all this with a regular file editor, which is located in the next module 79 of the All in one SEO pack plugin.

The next item is called "Optimize Robots.txt", but it doesn't smell like optimization. The module, as it is written, when you click on the "Optimize" button, analyzes the Robots.txt file for compliance with the standards for Robots.txt. The results are displayed in a separate window, but in such a stretched form that it is not possible to take a screenshot of the entire screen. In maximally reduced form, it looks like this:

The left column contains what it really is. The right column contains a suggestion for optimization. Green color marks what is beyond doubt and these are all Disallow directives. The so-called non-standard extension is marked in yellow, it is recognized, but not all scanners can recognize or interpret it in the same way. Surprisingly, in the opinion of this module, all Allow directives are considered a non-standard solution, as well as the Sitemap directive.

Red indicates what is considered an invalid syntax error for robots.txt. Indeed, the Host directive is intended only for Yandex; it is not needed for foreign search engines. But it is applied last, so it does no harm. Now a little about the proposal to optimize. According to the rules arising from the logic of the algorithm, the following practice has developed: By default, absolutely everything is allowed for indexing. To prohibit something, prohibit entire folders.

If later it turns out that in the forbidden folders there is something obligatory for indexing, then we do permissions pointwise. In the case proposed for optimization, the violation of logic and rules is immediately visible. First, it is proposed to register point permissions, and then prohibit everything. Naturally, everything will be prohibited, and permissions will be useless in this case. That is, the Robots.txt configuration module can be considered completely non-constructive and useless. Disabled categorically and do not use until changes for the better.

Next module 79 File editor. Everything here is surprisingly simple and good. I will not make screenshots and everything is clear. You can edit Robots.txt and .htacess of your choice. In the editor field, write the contents of the file and click on the "Update file" button. The changes are saved.

Module 80 - Importing and Exporting All in one SEO pack settings

125. Import - Select a valid All in One SEO Pack ini file and click the "Import" button to import the previous state settings or install the All in One SEO Pack.

126. Export settings - You can choose to export settings from active modules (General settings) and content from records. If General settings are checked, then General settings, settings of the Module Management block and settings of the currently active modules will be exported.

127. Exportable post types: - Select for which post types you want to export the All in One SEO Pack metadata.

There are two more modules "Blocker of harmful bots" and "Performance". But they were enabled by default and we reviewed them along with the general settings of the All in one SEO pack plugin earlier.

So we have considered all the great variety of features and settings of the SEO plugin All in One SEO Pack. It is clear that the developers of this SEO plugin wanted to collect in one place the maximum number of SEO optimization functions, SEO promotion, speeding up the site, protecting the site from bots, indexing tools, closing tools from indexing. I must say a lot they succeeded, so there will definitely be a benefit from this plugin.

But there are also flaws that we have noticed. And most importantly, there is no automation and there is no assessment of the correctness of the settings. This is exactly what it loses to another Yoast SEO plugin.

Setting up the All in One SEO Pack plugin by Michael Torbert is one of the first steps to start a website after. Despite the existence of many other similar plugins, I prefer All in One SEO Pack due to its flexible settings and regular updates.

The basic functions available in the free version are quite enough to customize the site for better indexing by search robots. It is possible to create a dynamic sitemap.xml file that is automatically updated every time a new page appears on the site. It is possible to exclude duplicate pages from indexing, which are inevitably generated by the WordPress engine itself. All the possibilities cannot be enumerated at once, so let's move on to setting it up step by step.

A step-by-step All in One SEO Pack for WordPress

This All in One SEO Pack setup guide is for those new to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is assumed that you know little about how search robots see your site, do not know how to correctly remove duplicate pages from the index and register meta tags. We'll go through each section of this plugin's settings and break down each item and option. If you haven't downloaded and installed this plugin yet, now is the time to do it.

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After successful installation of the plugin, go to the appeared tab “ SEO tools»In the main menu of the WordPress admin panel.

At the very top of the page, plugin developer Michael Torbert and the Semper Fi Web Design team are offering to subscribe to the WordPress secrets, tips and hacks newsletter and get a free eBook “5 SEO Tips for WordPress”.

basic settings

The first block of settings in the list is "Basic".

Thanks for the plugin, I donated... If you mark it with a checkbox and then save the changes by clicking the button " Update settings", You will see this pop-up window:

Thus, this item simply says thank you for your support, even if you did not provide this very support :) If you purchased the Pro version of this plugin, then at this place you will see a field for entering the license key.

Canonical URLs... This is already a very important setting item from the SEO point of view. Checked by default, and I recommend that you leave the checkbox unchecked. Canonical URLs protect you from Google sanctions for duplicate content or multiple URLs pointing to the same content.

No Pagination for Canonical URLs... As you can see, not all the names of the settings items have been translated into Russian. This option was added for those users who want to remove pagination from canonical URLs. Typically, the canonical URLs for pagination pages are displayed like this: http://example.com/page/2. This option removes / page / 2 from the URL. I checked this option, since for SEO it is better to completely close the pagination page from indexing (more on this below).

Display title by default... Disabled by default. You may need to enable this option if your theme or other activated plugin conflicts with the All in One SEO Pack on tag entry