All in One SEO Pack is one of the most recognized and deservedly best plugins for search engine optimization of WordPress sites, which at the time of writing has been downloaded more than 17 million times, which characterizes it as a very powerful plugin designed to help beginners start competent search engine optimization of their sites .
Simply installing the All in One SEO Pack plugin will certainly not help you optimize your website. In order to get the most out of it, the plugin needs to be configured correctly. There are a lot of settings, but strictly speaking, for a beginner you can leave most as is. This article describes in detail the process of setting up the plugin and describes most of the functions of the All in One SEO Pack.
All in One SEO Pack plugin settings
Basic settings
Leave the main settings as they are. There is no need to configure anything additional here.
In the settings on the main page you will see three fields: Home Page Title, Home Page Description And Home page keywords. You need to be very responsible about filling out these fields, as this is a very important step through which you introduce your site to the world and tell what it is about.
Firstly, In the “Home Page Title” field, write the name of your site and a short, enticing description. You must keep it to a maximum of 60 characters.
Secondly, In the “Home page description” field, write a description of your site. Here you will have to be content with a maximum of 160 characters.
For example, if your site is about mobile phones, you could write something like this: On our website you can find reviews of mobile phones, descriptions of their capabilities and detailed instructions for their use. Comparative reviews of mobile phones are also presented here.
Thirdly, In the “Home Page Keywords” field, write 6-8 keywords that readers will use to search for your site based on the home page. Separate keys with commas.
For example, if you are writing about mobile phones, write: cell phone reviews, mobile technology, cell phone comparisons, cell phone instructions and tips.
Keywords don't really influence search results, but as I said, you can specify 6 - 8 keywords. You should not repeat them when optimizing WordPress categories and .
Here I did not activate “Translate categories into keys” and “Translate tags into keys”. If your categories or tags are open for indexing, you can select these options. It’s better to generate keys to records yourself, but if you’re not sure you understand what you’re doing, check the box.
Templates for your page and post titles. In the updated version of the All in One SEO Pack plugin, the configuration of the “Header Settings” section is good without additional settings, so if you are new to this, do not try to change anything here.
By default, the plugin is able to work with any type of post. So leave the first item enabled. Select additional options if you plan to work with more than just posts and pages.
This block is only responsible for displaying the All in One SEO Pack plugin settings menu. You can choose where to show them: in posts, on pages, in the admin panel. It all depends on where you want to display the settings: if you need them in the top menu, then activate the last option.
Webmaster settings
In the webmaster settings, enter your verification codes from Google, Bing and Pinterest. It is clear that the last two are not particularly relevant for our users.
Google services settings
When you search for something on Google, sometimes you see a photo of the author under the search results. This group of settings will help you show photos under your posts in search results. But you must have a Google + account and a verified Google authorship.
Paste your Google+ profile URL into the Google+ Profile field.
The All in one pack plugin supports Google analytics. Paste your Google analytic code into the “Google statistics ID” field, the code should look something like this – UA-XXXX.
Indexing settings (noindex)
It is not easy for beginners to understand the meaning of this title. No indexing means that none of your pages or posts will ever be indexed by Google. If you check the box next to "Use noindex for categories," "Noindex for tag archives," or other archived items, Google won't index any of it. By checking these boxes, you can avoid duplicate content. You can uncheck the “Use noindex for categories” or “Noindex for tag archives” checkboxes if you want these items to be indexed.
You can also use the noindex/follow plugin for better control over indexing.
Additional settings
In Advanced Settings, the first option, called “Generated Description,” is enabled by default and is responsible for generating descriptions. Be sure to check the box next to the next option - “Remove description from multi-page pages”, since if you write long posts and divide them into two pages, the extra description on the second page will be deleted.
Leave all options as default.
Update your settings.
Additional modules
This section presents activated modules that, as conceived by the authors, can further improve your site. One of them is enabled by default. You can activate the other two yourself. Once activated, the corresponding settings for each module will appear in your menu.
A page where you can configure some performance parameters.
In this lesson we will look at how to install the All in One Seo Pack plugin. This is one of the most necessary plugins for successful SEO website promotion. But I’ll say right away that it is only suitable for the WordPress engine. Sites with other engines need to use completely different operating schemes.
Well, let's start installing the plugin. To do this, let's first log into the admin area of your site. To install the All in One Seo Pack plugin, go to the section "Plugins" choose "Add new" and in the search bar we write . After that, click "Search for plugins."
Among all the plugins found, we need All in One Seo Pack. Select it and click "Install". After that, in the window that appears, click on the button "Activate plugin"
All plugins are installed. I think that now everyone will know how to install a plugin and, moreover, any of them. Because the installation principle is the same for all plugins.
Now let's customize it a little. You can go to the plugin settings from the WordPress panel. Go to the column "SEO Tools" "Basic". Click here and go to the plugin settings panel.
Let's now go through these settings step by step:
Basic:
- check mark "Canonical URLs"- must definitely stand. This prevents the creation of duplicates on the site;
- "Show title by default"– leave the default “Disable” This checkbox affects the compatibility of the plugin with various themes;
- "Keep an event log"- we don’t put it.
Home page settings:
- You will learn how to correctly fill out the fields Title, Description, Keywords in the lesson about compiling a semantic core for a site. Now we will not touch on this issue. This is a very broad topic.
Key settings:
- "Use Keys"— it must be “Connect.” If you disable this, then the site will not use keywords;
- “Translate categories into keys”— we remove;
- "Translate labels into keys"- We also film. Because we will enter all keywords manually;
- “Generate keys to records automatically”— uncheck the box for the same reason.
Header settings:
- "Rewrite headers"— the “Connect” checkbox must be checked;
- ticks "Capital Headings" And “Capitalized section headings” leave it on. In principle, this doesn’t really affect anything. Just in some pages on the site such as “Tag Pages” "Category Pages" Each word in the title will begin with a capital letter.
- then "Format for pages", "Format for entries", "Format for rubrics" and we do not touch all other formats, leaving them as default. The only thing that can be translated is in the “Format for 404 pages” section the phrase “Nothing found for” and write here in Russian “Nothing found for”, and in the “Format for navigation” the word “Part” is translated into Russian as “ Part". This format is needed for pages divided into parts.
Appearance settings:
- "Show SEO settings for post types"– only “posts and pages” should be checked.
- We skip Settings for Webmaster and Settings for Services in Google.
- Indexing settings (noindex) - we determine whether category pages, archive pages and tags will be indexed on the site. Here we check the boxes and prohibit the indexing of archives and tags, but leave the categories.
Additional settings:
- "Generated Description"– uncheck this box. Using this checkbox, descriptions will be generated automatically for those pages that do not have descriptions. But I recommend that you uncheck this box and enter all descriptions manually.
This plugin also has a “Performance” settings tab. You don't need to touch anything here. We leave everything as default.
And there is also the “Other Modules” tab. You don’t need to touch anything here either. We leave everything as it is.
We have configured the plugin and now you can use it.
After we installed the plugin, in the “Posts” section in the editing window for each post, plugin settings now appear for each post separately, where we can enter the title for the post, post description and keywords. All this data is needed for search engines - first of all.
Here, by the way, the plugin also displays how our site will look in Google results: Title, link to the article and description.
In the new version of the plugin, we also have a few more checkboxes. Using them, you can prevent a page from being indexed, prevent search engines from following links on this page, or we can disable the plugin for this article altogether. But we don’t need these checkboxes, so we don’t need to check them.
You may still have the old All in One Seo Pack plugin installed, but that’s okay. The settings all remain the same. The plugin interface just changed a little.
We have explained everything about how to install the plugin, and we have corrected the All in One Seo Pack settings. That's all for today. Goodbye everyone.
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All in one SEO pack is probably the most popular SEO plugin for Wordpress, and perhaps the oldest. According to the publishers, the All in one SEO pack plugin has been downloaded more than 30,000,000 times since 2007. I, like most WordPress users, once started SEO of my website with the All in one SEO pack. It has a huge number of different functions and settings. To be honest, there are so many of them that some begin to repeat themselves, some have no clear purpose, 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 writing, 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 called “All in one SEO” will appear in the administrative panel menu and there are only 4 subsections in it: “Basic settings”, “Performance”, “Blocker of harmful bots” and “Manage modules”. All SEO settings are located in the "Basic Settings" subsection. "Productivity" and "Blocker of harmful bots" are already included additional extension modules. They are not directly related to SEO, but are designed to speed up site loading, which in turn should improve rankings in search results.
1. Canonical URLs: - enabled by default and this is correct, since the URL created for an article/page should be the main one, and all other duplicates (such as archives, etc.) should be secondary. If the search engine does not know which address is the main one, it will not know how to rank them and not the article, but, for example, its archived copy 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 divided. It looks something like this: http://domennoe_imja.ru/2/nazvanie_posta.html. The two in the URL is precisely the result of pagination. In my opinion, not only does it not add to the understanding of where the final object is located, it also lengthens the URL unnecessarily. I think this point is unnecessary and useless. We disable this function, that is, check the box.
3. Enable custom canonical URLs: - also not a clear point, but maybe someone will need it. When enabled, an additional field appears in which you can enter a custom URL for a specific post.
4. Use default title: - by default the function is disabled. May need to be enabled if your theme or other active plugins on your site are preventing 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 another, perhaps more attractive or relevant one. Here you will be able to navigate 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 page's html code. If your site is not aimed at a foreign audience, then it is better to disable the function to keep the code clean.
6. Keep an event log: - creates a log file of events that occur inside the All in one SEO pack when the plugin is updated. Mainly used for debugging.
7. Main page title: - This field sets the title for the main page of the site (title tag). The maximum name length selected is only 57 characters. Although, as far as I know, many search engines understand 70 characters well. The number of characters used is calculated by the plugin and displayed in the window below.
8. Description of the main page: - In this field, set 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 no more than 160.
9. Use (instead of) a static home page - the function only works if you enable the item in the WordPress settings/reading/On the main page display/static page. When you set the checkbox to enable in this section, points 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 complex and confusing.
The Heading Settings section initially consists of two items: “Rewrite headers” and “Capitalize tags and search headers”. But everything changes when you turn on point 10.
10. Rewrite headers: - This item is intended for setting up templates for displaying headers on the main page, other pages, posts, categories, 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 WordPress itself will be added to the given names of articles, posts, categories,.... In principle, the settings have already been set correctly and points 12-24 do not need to be touched, but if you want to change something, 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, sections,... In my opinion, a strange item, since I have not yet seen templates where the names of archives, sections,... begin with a small letter. They usually either begin with a capital letter or are written entirely in capital letters.
25. SEO for Custom Post Types: - In this section you can enable or disable SEO settings for custom post types. When switched off, 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 subject to 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 the SEO status directly in the post lists.
In paragraphs 29 - 31, your rights to the site are checked for Google, Bing, Pinterest webmasters by entering a rights verification code. To do this, you need to register in each system and receive a code. Enter the received codes each in its own field and click the "Update settings" button. After this, a message should appear in the webmaster of each system 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 window: - according to the documentation, this item should make searching for content easier for users. But to implement it, you need to install and configure a working search engine on your site. Which in general is not as simple as intended.
35. Set Preferred Site Title: - Allows you to change the site name right here. Duplicates the function available in WordPress itself in the general settings section.
"Display publisher tag on home page" - this parameter allows you to specify whether the "publisher" tag should be present on the site's home page. When enabled, the following field appears.
“Indicate Publisher URL” - the specified account URL, preferably a Google+ profile for your business, will be displayed as attributes of the “publisher” tag.
37. Google Analytics ID: - Google Analytics ID is entered 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 creating titles and descriptions in search results.
41. Default NOYDIR - tells search engines such as Google not to use Yahoo! Directory as the source for creating titles and descriptions in search results.
31 - 41 are the default settings to not index posts, pages, media files and they are not marked. You can prevent any type of content from being indexed if necessary.
42. Use noindex for categories: - already enabled
43. Use noindex for date archives: - already enabled
45. Use noindex for tag archives: - must be enabled
46. Use noindex for the search page: - leave as is
47. Use noindex for 404 pages: - leave as is
48. Use noindex for pages/posts with pagination: - it’s better to enable
49. Use nofollow for pages/posts with pagination: - it’s better to enable
50. Exclude the site from the Open Directory Project: - almost a repeat of point 40
51. Exclude a site from Yahoo! Directory: - repeat point 41
52. Avoid using excerpts in descriptions: - disables random passages of text in the snippet.
53. Auto-generated descriptions: - enables the generation of descriptions in a snippet from the first lines of any paragraph. Essentially this is the opposite of the previous point. When you enable it, another item appears: “Use shortcodes in auto-generated descriptions.” Which allow you to identify 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 divided into pages, then it leaves the article description only on the first page of the article, and deletes it on all the rest.
55. Never shorten long descriptions: - to make the description easier for search engines to understand, descriptions are shortened to 160 characters. Enabling this item allows you to set a description of any length, which will not be limited.
56. Unprotected META fields: - From the description it is not at all clear what this item allows you to do. But the help for this item clearly states that if you don’t understand why this is, then leave it unchecked.
57. Redirect attachments to parent post: - redirects the URL of an attachment (for example an image) to the URL of the parent post.
58. Exclude pages: - do not display pages or articles. The list is entered separated by commas. Articles and pages remain editable.
59. Add. post header: - an additional header will be displayed on all posts.
60. Add. page header: - an additional header 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. title of the main page of the blog: - essentially a repetition of paragraph 61.
Next comes the keyword settings section and it’s kind of anomalous. If you include point 63, then three more points 64 - 66 appear. Which, in my opinion, do not add to the quality of the keys, but can only be misleading.
63. Use keywords: - enables keyword support for all posts and pages on the site. 
64. Use categories as keys: - silently disabled and that’s correct. Enabling this option causes the category name for an entry to be used as keywords for that entry (in addition to any keywords specified on the entry edit screen). As you understand, the name of a category or heading may differ significantly from the name of the topic of the article, which may not only not give a positive search result, but also worsen the behavioral factor for the site.
65. Use tags as keys: - this item is enabled by default. But I also don’t find it useful, just like the previous one. It allows tags for a given post to be used as keywords for that post (in addition to any keywords specified in the post edit screen). Tags are designed to make it easier to find information on a specific site where the topic and number of articles is limited. Therefore, using tags as keys to search throughout the Internet is not entirely appropriate, which again can negatively affect the behavioral factor. Needs to be turned off.
66. Dynamically generate keywords for a page with publications/archives: - allows keywords to be displayed on a page with publications (set in WordPress settings, in the Reading, page display section) and archive pages to be dynamically generated from the keywords shown on that page. If unchecked, the keywords specified in the message editing screen will be used. It should be disabled, as the result is unpredictable and not very useful.
This concludes the SEO settings of the All in one SEO pack plugin. Now it's time to see what we've added to the article editor. This SEO needs to be connected somewhere. Below the text in the editor there is a section called All in one SEO pack. 
The first step is to preview the snippet. 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 out the “Description” item. Here you will need to enter a clear, relevant description of your article. It won’t actually be shown in the snippet, but it will show how your article will look in search results. And this 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 must be very thoughtful and the description must include the main search key for which the article is 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 title length indicator and try to add something useful to it, perhaps add a keyword or call to action and then transfer the resulting structure to the title of the article. The “Title” field itself must be filled in, since its contents will go into the title parameter. If the field is left empty, then All in one SEO pack will substitute the title of the article, which is generally correct.
If you have the "Use Keywords" item enabled in your settings, then after the description the item "
" " - ask search robots not to index this page;
" " - ask search robots not to follow links on the page;
" " - ask search engines not to use descriptions from the Open Directory Project for your site;
" " - ask Yahoo! do not use descriptions from Yahoo! catalog for your website.
Next comes the item " " - which means completely disable SEO for this page. I don’t know why this might be necessary, but there is such a point. And what’s interesting is that when you turn it on, another strange item is added "
That's all. No automation, no hints or recommendations, no assessments. There is nothing. But I want to know what is being done and why, and how well the optimization was done. 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 this point is superfluous, since the WordPress core can also change the value of the memory limit. Additionally, this option may not work on some servers where memory modification is disabled. 
68. Increase execution time - this option allows you to increase the execution time of PHP. May be useful if you receive a timeout error when trying to perform functions in your WordPress admin panel or site.
69. Forced rewriting: - allows you to use output buffering to write a meta title. Some themes and plugins will overwrite other meta names because they are executed after the All in one SEO pack has run.
Next comes the most amazing “System Status” section, which has nothing to do with SEO in general, but collects information in great detail about everything that is installed on your server. His window looks like this: 
Definitely some useful information there. For example, the points we talked about just above. I underlined them. It is worth paying attention to the type of server and the versions of MYSQL and PHP. Well, this is so that we 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.
Next, 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 being done if we have a plugin management section. There are their names and versions, descriptions and management, and 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.
Next module 81 "Blocker of harmful bots". For the life of me, I don’t understand what bots and their blocking have to do with SEO. Normally, this is the security of the site. Well, let's see what we have in this area.
Harmful Bot Blocker settings
70. Blocking harmful bots using HTTP - blocking requests from user agents who are known to mess with 503.
71. Block referral spam using HTTP - blocking referral spam using HTTP.
72. Track blocked bots - display records of recent requests from blocked bots. When enabled, item 75 appears, which is a log of requests from blocked bots.
73. Use your own blacklist - allows you to edit the list of prohibited user agents to block harmful bots. When turned on, item 74 appears, which already contains 137 entries. You can also add famous bots there.
74. Blacklist of user agents - directly a blacklist of bots that can be edited.
75. Logging blocked bots - a log of records of recent requests from blocked bots.
Now let's move on to the last subsection of the plugin's main menu, "Manage Modules". Our free version has 7 modules that you can enable and get additional features. In fact, these are 7 additional plugins. 
The following module manages the settings for the sitemap xml sitemap.
Setting up Sitemap xml for WordPress
76. XML Site Map - allows you to create an XML site map. When you click on the “Activate” button, in the main menu of the plugin, between the second and third subsections, another one appears with the name “XML Site Map”. By clicking on it, we go to the XML Sitemap settings. 
84. Sitemap status - by clicking on the inscription “view sitemap” we will get a sitemap in xml format. Which displays all posts, pages, priorities, frequencies and last updated dates. 
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. There is no need to change anything.
86. Update on a schedule - Probably a translation error. This is not an update, but a notification to 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 sitemap indexing - Due to incorrect translation, you might think that indexing of the map by search engines is disabled here, which you will agree is very stupid. 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 size is 10 MB. After enabling this item, another item will appear called “Page Map Navigation”, which allows you to create new site map pages. And after turning it on, another item will appear called “Maximum number of publications on the site map”, where by default 50,000 URLs are already set. But this number can be reduced.
88. Post Types and 89. Taxonomies - These two items allow you to create a sitemap URL for each post type and category. The “All Post Types” and “All Taxonomies” items enable or disable all types at once. I would understand the need for such buttons if there were more than 20 types. But in my opinion, turning three buttons on or off is no problem.
When you enable the remaining items, addresses will be created in the site map for each type of post. And if the “Page-by-page map navigation” item is enabled, separate maps will be created with the name for “Posts” - “sitemap_post”, “Pages” - “sitemap_page”, “Media/Attachments” - “sitemap_attachment”, Categories - “sitemap_category”, “Tags” - “sitemap_post_tag”, which will include 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 it critically. But Yandex doesn’t want to understand this. The situation is like this. For example, we create a main map where the addresses of articles look like this: “http://site_domain_name/article_name/” - this is normal, as it should be. And we allow you to 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 this. And this is understandable, it does not comply with the rules on the quality of content. The ratings of articles and the site as a whole are going down. If there are many articles, then there are just as many duplicates. How do you like the situation? How much do you think the site's ranking will drop? The situation with rubrics is no better. Duplicates of announcements and pages with announcements are created. Any duplicates are very bad for Yandex.
Now another problem is perhaps even more terrible. Permission to include “Media/Attachments” in the sitemap results in all your pictures being formatted not as files, but as a separate article with a separate address, named after the file name, but with absolutely no content, just a picture. It looks like this: 
Now think about how many pictures you have on your website. This means that the Yandex index on your site contains thousands of articles with zero content and one picture. How do you think Yandex will react? Of course AGS. And this is not an assumption. This stage has already been passed. My site has already experienced this. I was under AGS for almost two years and I couldn’t even imagine that the site map was to blame. So I recommend turning everything off to avoid problems with Yandex. And leave only Posts and Pages.
90. Include daily archives and 91. Include author pages - add records of archive dates and article authors, which also leads to the creation of duplicates. It's off by default, which is good.
92. Create a compressed version of the site map - the site map is immediately archived in .gz format.
94. Dynamic site map - A new site map is generated each time it is requested. The function is good because 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 you can add additional pages 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 could be contact forms, help services, etc.
The following figure suggests categories to exclude from the site map. The list you see is a list of categories from my test bench. Yours will be completely different. 
In this section, you can exclude categories by title or list, separated by commas, the addresses of pages that you want to exclude from the site map.
The following figure provides the ability to set map data update priorities for the following objects: 
Priorities are usually set for the Home page 1 is the maximum, for Posts in the range of 0.7-0.9, for Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, Archives) 0.1-0.3 is the minimum since they change least often and do not have much importance.
The following figure provides the opportunity to set the frequency of updating data in the card. 
The frequency of updates is set depending on the frequency of changes. If you write one article every day, then you can set the frequency for articles to “daily”. If you post more articles and often correct old articles, then you can set the frequency to “hourly”. For taxonomies, an update frequency of “monthly” is appropriate.
The next module manages 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.
Social Network Settings
95. Enable Shortcodes in Title - Enabling this option will ensure that shortcodes in the title of posts or pages will be triggered.
96. Use shortcodes in the description - enabling this option ensures that shortcodes in the description of posts or pages will be launched, provided that the following 97 item “Auto-generate OG description” is enabled.
97. Auto-generation of OG descriptions - enabling this item will allow you to automatically generate descriptions for each page or message from any passage. 
98. Use AIOSEO title and description - enabling this option will allow you to use the Title and Description for the Home page, which are set on the General settings screen of the All in one SEO pack. Enabling this item will block access to items 100 and 101.
99. The site name is the name used to identify your website.
100. Heading house. pages - if you add anything here, it will be displayed 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 a house. pages - here you can add an image that will be displayed in a social media post about your website home page. Instead of an image, you can enter the URL of a picture located on another site. 
103. Select source OG:Image - Use the drop-down list to select the default image to be used as the OG: image for the post or page:
- Default image - the image specified by the default OG 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 message (media attachment);
- First image in content - use the first image found in the post content;
- Image from a 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 - selected automatically automatically;
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, then the image defined in item 105 will be used by default.
105. Default OG:Image - 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. Default Image Width - This option allows you to set a default width for images where it is not specified, which will be used for social media. Each social media network has its own preferred image size. For example, Facebook wants images that are 1200 pixels wide. Enter only numbers here, for example: 1200.
107. Default Image Height - This option allows you to set a default 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. Enter only numbers here, for example: 630.
108. Use Custom Fields for Image - Allows you to use this field to select a custom OG field: image. Enter a name for the custom field in this window. 
111. Associated Name - You can add the name of the person or organization that owns these profiles to this field.
Points 110 and 111 are related to markup, which is designed to improve the appearance of your site and ranking in Google search results, naturally by pre-configuring it 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 - the developer ID is entered here. Information on how to get your Facebook App ID can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/register/. It will probably be useful for those who develop applications for Facebook. The average user does not need this.
114. Facebook Data Type - Open Graph determines what type of site you have - website, blog or articles. Set this option to match what you specified in Settings/Reading, Home Page Latest 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 Post Tags, Categories or Keywords based on the three options 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 select which post types you want to use the All in One SEO Pack to set Open Graph meta values.
117. Show publisher's Facebook in articles - here enter a link to the Facebook page associated with your site.
119. Entries Data type (post) and 120. Pages Data type (page) - you must select the default value that better describes the content of the entry. The list is quite long and if you select the wrong type, 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. Twitter Card Default - With Twitter cards, you can attach large photos, videos and media so that your tweets help drive more traffic to your site.
122. Site Twitter - Here you need to enter the Twitter username associated with the site. The name is entered with the @ symbol at the beginning.
123. Show author's Twitter - after enabling this item in the Users menu, the "Twitter" item will appear where you can enter the name of your Twitter account. Which will allow authors to be identified by their Twitter accounts as content creators on Twitter cards for their posts.
124. Twitter domain - enter here the domain name for your website without HTTP: //. 
The last item in the social network settings is “Scanning social meta”. It is designed to detect problems caused by re-generating the Open Graph meta tag. The thing is that some plugins and themes can also output Open Graph meta tags. The scanner itself does not fix the problem, but only detects its presence. If there is a problem, you will need to find those plugins or themes yourself that intersect with the social network settings in the All in one SEO pack and determine what you need, leave it, and disable the rest.
After completing all the settings for social networks, it’s 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, next to the main settings, an additional tab called “Social Settings” appears. 
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, for example 800. " All in one SEO pack - Create Robots.txt
Here is a window for creating the Robots.txt file. In fact, this is a constructor, but only a curve one. In a normal constructor, I took an object and installed it. I didn't like it. 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. Records are formed as follows: in the " " field, select the "Allow" or "Disallow" directive from the drop-down menu. Only “Disallow” is named “Block” for some reason, which is already misleading.
Next, in the " " field we 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 the entire path, but only a part starting from the WordPress root folder, for example /wp-admin/. And click the “Add Rule” button. A new entry will appear at the end of the file contents field. It looks like this: 
The file turns out to be very long and stupid. No, it works, but it’s not optimized at all, it’s very long, and it’s full of repetitive directives. So this invention is completely useless, if not harmful. It’s simpler 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 there is no smell of optimization there. The module, as written, when you click 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 its most reduced form it looks like this: 
The left column contains what actually exists. The right column contains a suggestion for optimization. The green color indicates 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. A surprising fact, but according to this module, all Allow directives are considered a non-standard solution, as well as the Sitemap directive.
The red color 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 optimization proposal. 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 ban something, we ban entire folders.
If it later turns out that there is something in the prohibited folders that must be indexed, then we make specific permissions. In the case proposed for optimization, a violation of logic and rules is immediately visible. First, it is proposed to register specific permissions, and then ban everything. Naturally, everything will be prohibited, and permits will be useless in this case. That is, the Robots.txt configuration module can be considered completely unconstructive and useless. Strictly disable and do not use until things change for the better.
Next module 79 File editor. Everything here is surprisingly simple and good. I won’t make screenshots and everything is clear. You can edit Robots.txt and .htacess by choice. In the editor field, write the contents of the file and click on the "Update file" button. The changes are saved.
Module 80 - Import and export of 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 All in One SEO Pack installation.
126. Export Settings - You can choose to export settings from active modules (General Settings) and content from entries. If General Settings is checked, then General Settings, Module Control block settings, and settings of currently active modules will be exported.
127. Exported Post Types: - Select which post types you want to export All in One SEO Pack metadata for.
There are two more modules: “Blocker of harmful bots” and “Performance”. But they were enabled by default and we reviewed them together with the general settings of the All in one SEO pack plugin earlier.
So we looked at 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 functions of SEO optimization, SEO promotion, speeding up the site, protecting the site from bots, indexing tools, and closing tools from indexing. I must say they succeeded in a lot, so this plugin will definitely be useful.
But there are also mistakes that we noticed. And most importantly, there is no automation and there is no assessment of the correctness of the settings. This is where it loses to another Yoast SEO plugin.
Greetings, dear readers! This article will talk about the most important and most popular WordPress plugin called All in One Seo Pack. If you came to this article from a search engine, then you probably already know what kind of beast this is and therefore you can click and go directly to setting up the All in One Seo Pack plugin. And just in case, I’ll tell you in more detail, for those who don’t know what this miracle plugin is for, what to do with it, and just for the general scope of the article :-).
P.S. The volume of the article is very large. I would like to ask you to immediately take setting up this plugin seriously. Do it once and forget it.
All in One Seo Pack plugin and what is it for?
I, like many webmasters who have WordPress sites, believe that too many plugins is bad. However, All in One Seo Pack is the very plugin that should be in the arsenal of every webmaster. Maybe, of course, not this particular plugin, perhaps its analogues, such as Platinum Seo Pack and WordPress SEO.
What functions does this miracle supplement perform? The most important thing for which this plugin is intended is to compile and write code with internal optimization meta tags: title, description, keywords.
This code is not displayed on the site in any way and is created only for search engines. With the help of meta tags, your pages are ranked better by search engines, it is easier for them to understand what is being said on this page, and also, using these meta tags, search engines can form a snippet in their results. Please pay your attention to the word “can”. This means that it is not necessary that when you write a description, search engines will take this particular text into the description. But title is used constantly by search engines.
If you are a novice webmaster and don’t understand anything, don’t be alarmed. Next, I will explain everything to you in detail step by step with photos. Now I put myself in your place, my head is spinning. There will be more to come :-). What I wrote above is not all the capabilities of this plugin; later, when setting it up, you will see for yourself and understand everything that it is capable of. As they say, it’s better to do it once than to hear it a hundred times. Let's go!
How to properly configure the All in One SEO Pack plugin?
And so, first of all, you will, of course, need to install this plugin. You can easily find the latest version in your wordpress console. You can find out how to find and install plugins. After you have installed and activated it, the name of the plugin will appear in the menu on the left side, where there are various settings for it.
To begin, go to the “General Settings” tab. These are the main settings of All in One Seo Pack.
And oh horror, everything is in English. I don't know about you, but for me this was a problem. Let's look at everything point by point. At the time you read this article, you may already have a different version of the plugin and some new items may appear, while others, on the contrary, will disappear. So if you have something extra, leave these settings as default.
Basic settings
- I enjoy this plugin and have made a donation - “Thank you for the plugin, I made a donation”
Here, it seems to me, there is no need to explain anything. The plugin is free and we, if desired, can make donations and, by checking the box, inform the creators about it.
- Canonical URLs - “Canonical URLs”
This setting adds the rel="cononical" tag to the page. Thanks to it, search engines remove pages with the same content and duplicate pages from searches. This item should be checked.
- No Pagination for Canonical URLs – “Prohibit pagination for canonical URLs”»
This setting will block the indexing of pages with numbers, which again will save the site from duplication. But to be honest, I didn’t check the box on one site, I checked it on another. So see for yourself.
- Enable Custom Canonical URLs – “Enable custom canonical URLs”»
I’ll be honest, I don’t really understand what this function is, it’s disabled by default. Let's leave it that way.
- Set Protocol For Canonical URLs – “Set the protocol for canonical URLs”
Install on "Auto". I won’t explain to you what protocols are, it’s very long.
- Use Original Title – “Use default title”
Since headings need to be written independently, with feeling, sense and arrangement, we disable this function "Disabled"
- Use Schema.org Markup – “Using Schema.org markup”
If you ordered markup or you had it right away in the template, then you do not need to check the box, but if you don’t have markup, then check the box, and if you don’t even know what markup is and what it’s needed for, then it’s better do not check the box to avoid errors.
- Log important events – “Event log”
Well, it’s already clear what this function does. However, we don’t need the extra load from the plugin, and this magazine will be difficult for the uninitiated to read. We don't tick the box.
Home page settings
This point relates to the semantic core of your site. How to compose it and work with it you
- Home Title - “Home page title”
The main page is also the main one in Africa. Write the name of your site here and most importantly make sure that it does not exceed more than 60 characters.
- Home Description – “Description of the main page”
Write here a short description of your site, a couple of sentences about what your site is about, using the main keywords in them. Also try not to exceed the 160 character limit. As you can see in the picture above, I have exceeded it by 6 characters, but this is not critical.
- Home Keywords (comma separated) – “Site Keywords”
This meta tag is going into the sunset. I think that there are a couple of other search engines that take into account the Keywords tag, but Google and Yandex have already forgotten this, like a bad dream. And we are advanced webmasters and therefore we will focus only on the giants of the search industry, and we are not interested in others.
- Use Static Front Page Instead
If you are using the main page as a stats page, then go to the left "Enabled" if the main one is in the form of a news feed, as is often the case on blogs, then you should go to the right "Disabled"
Setting up keys
I already talked about keys above. It's better not to use them at all. But there are still the old guard and adherents of the old canons who use them. If you are one of these conservatives, then simply check the boxes as shown in the picture below. You just need to enable the use of keys "Enabled" or disable "Disabled".
Header Settings
At this point, format the headers of all your pages. There are sections and pages and posts and the main page and what not. I won’t go into depth, I’ll show you a simple example. If my category “Canning” appears in search results, it will look like this.
And if there is a page with an article in the search results, the title will look like this.
In the first case, with a category in the header there is the name of the category and through the horizontal stick there is the name of my site, and in the second version with an article there is simply the name of the article. Now let's see what we have in the plugin settings.
Well, I think you get the point. But if you don’t want to bother, then do everything as in the picture and live in peace.
I would like to draw your attention to the last two points “404 Title Format” and “Paged Format”. There, from the default settings, you can and should translate into Russian.
Setting up custom post types
In this paragraph, we indicate where additional fields should be displayed to fill in the title, description and keywords. This means that when you create an article or page, there will be fields under the text editor that you and I will fill out in the future.
- SEO for Custom Post Types – “SEO for custom post types”
Turn on " Enabled»
- SEO on only these post types – “SEO only for these post types”
Here we choose what we will optimize: posts and pages. Media files, I think, should not be specified. There is already plenty of work on the site, but optimizing every single image is not worth the effort.
- Enable Advanced Options - “Enable additional options”
Disable "Disabled"
Customizing the appearance
There’s not even anything to talk about here, so we put everything as shown in the picture. These points mean where to display the link to the settings of the All in One Seo Pack plugin. Just where we are now making settings
Settings for webmasters
When you have registered or will still register your site in the webmaster panel of search engines, then to confirm the rights to the site you are required to insert a code into your site. This can be done in different ways. And now the creators of the All in One Seo Pack plugin provide us with this opportunity to do this using their plugin. But since I did this a long time ago, these fields are all empty.
Google services settings
In this section we can use various Google services.
Here, in fact, you only need to configure two lines, the first and the last.
- Google Plus Default Profile – “Profile on the Google+ network”
In this line you need to insert a link to your Google+ profile. This action will help improve the appearance of the snippet in Google. You've probably seen how the author's photo appears in Google results near some sites. If you insert a link to your profile, then your photo will appear, which accordingly increases the click-through rate. Although, as I heard, Google has now decided to stop adding photos to the snippet.
- Google Analytics ID – “Google statistics ID”
This is a setting for those who decide to use Google Analytics.
Indexing settings (noindex)
From the name it is clear what needs to be configured here. I won't tell you everything in detail. There should be only five checkmarks as in the picture below.
BUT! I would like to draw your attention to two points “Use noindex for Categories” and “Use noindex for Tag Archives”. With these checkboxes, we prohibit indexing of category pages and tag pages. Here, of course, it’s up to you to decide for yourself, but personally, on one of my websites dedicated to cooking, I decided to remove these checkboxes. Due to the fact that I have a description for each category in the form of text on the page, and my tag pages look like full-fledged pages in the form of a gallery, I felt sorry for them not to be indexed by search engines.
Additional settings
Here we leave everything empty. This section is not worth paying attention to at all. Mostly pointless functions.
Well, at the very end of our long journey, don’t forget to click on the “Update Options” button, which means updating the settings.
Using the All in One SEO Pack plugin
Now, when you write a new article or if you already have articles and you need to optimize it, a new block will appear under the text editor.
Here we only need two fields: “Title” and “Description”. How to fill them out correctly is a completely different story.
In conclusion
This completes the main settings of the All in One Seo Pack plugin. But this plugin also has additional modules, which you can read about in the next article. If you don’t understand something or have any questions, write them in the comments. Also don't forget to subscribe to blog updates. Thanks everyone, bye everyone!
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One of the popular plugins for SEO optimization of your website is All in One SEO Pack. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install, configure and use this plugin on your WordPress site.
Why do you need the All in One SEO Pack plugin?
Search engine optimization (SEO) helps improve a website's ranking in Google and other search engines.
WordPress itself is SEO-friendly.
But you can still improve the site’s performance, for example: adding meta tags, creating an XML sitemap, eliminating duplication, etc.
The All in One SEO Pack helps you do all of this through an easy-to-use interface that resides in your WordPress dashboard.
At Azbuka WordPress we use Yoast SEO, although both plugins are great options for optimizing your site.
Setting up All in One SEO Pack
The basic version of the plugin is free.
There is a Pro version that includes additional features such as advanced support for WooCommerce, SEO for categories, tags and custom taxonomies, and several other features.
You can see the cost of the packages in the picture below:
Let's get started with the setup.
Install and activate the plugin.
If this is your first time, please watch our video.
A new All in One SEO Pack item will be added to the admin panel.
Go to the “General Settings” tab to configure the plugin settings.
A variety of settings will appear on the screen, each with a question mark icon. If you click on it, you will see an informational message about this option.
The first option on the General Settings page is Canonical URLs.
Specifying a canonical URL for each post helps ensure that Google doesn't duplicate content.
Typically in WordPress, one post is displayed in several places: home page, archive page, author page, categories and tags.
Publishing full articles on all pages creates duplicate content.
Setting up the home page
In this section you need to indicate the title of the main page, which, if you wish, may differ from the name of the site. By default, the site name will be used.
In both cases, make sure that the site name contains keywords. For example, our website is called: Azbuka WordPress - Creating a website on WordPress.
In the next field, enter a short description of your site. It should not be more than 156 characters and should contain keywords.
You shouldn’t write all the keys at once—make the description clear and simple.
If you leave the description field empty, the plugin will not display a description. Don’t be lazy and write a beautiful and succinct description of your site.
To use a static home page, select the Enable option next to Use Static Home Page.
Header Settings
Header Settings allows you to set header templates for each page created by WordPress. This could be one post, the main page, archives, tags or categories.
You can also test how the titles for your pages will appear by changing the tags used for different page titles.
Custom Post Type Settings
In the Custom Post Types settings, you can activate the plugin (enable SEO) for any custom posts used on your site.
For example, when using WooCommerce, all products will be custom post types and will appear here.
Display Settings
Here you can configure the area to display the title, keywords and description. These options are enabled by default, you can leave everything as is.
Webmaster verification
Here you can add a verification code provided by Google, Bing or Pinterest to verify your ownership of the site.
Using the services, you can receive detailed reports, see the site’s ranking in search engines, and also receive notifications about possible errors.
Google Settings
In the Google Settings section, you can enter your Google+ profile URL to add copyright. Once you add the link, you must go to your Google+ profile and add the site.
You can also add your Google Analytics ID to track visitor behavior, and the plugin will automatically add your Google Analytics code to the site.
Indexing Settings
In this section, you can disable indexing of categories and archived pages on your website by search engines.
Some SEO experts consider this to be duplicate content and it is better not to index these pages.
However, others argue that you should only disable those that are not considered necessary. And store useful archives, such as category archives and tag archives.
All in One SEO Pack allows you to not index categories and archived pages by default. I would recommend that you uncheck the Categories box.
Advanced settings
These settings allow experienced webmasters to change certain aspects of site optimization. For example: excluding pages, adding code to headers, auto-generating descriptions, etc.
If you don't yet know how to use this section correctly, leave it unchanged.
Keyword settings
Many SEO experts believe that meta tags are no longer useful, while others believe they are still useful.
In All in One SEO Pack, keyword usage is disabled by default. If this option is important to you, then you should make it active.
Managing All in One SEO Pack modules
All in One SEO Pack is a powerful plugin with a wide range of features. Some of them are not available by default.
To activate them, go to the “Manage Modules” tab.
The creators of the plugin believe that some users may use other plugins for XML Sitemaps and the Facebook Open Graph Protocol.
If you are not using other plugins, you must activate these two modules to add an XML map and social media meta tags.
XML sitemap settings
In your admin panel, go to the XML Sitemap tab and check the box next to the Notify Google and Notify Bing options.
Leave the rest of the settings unchanged. And don't forget to click the "Update" button.
Social meta
In the admin panel, go to the Social Meta tab - Home Page Settings. Here you need to specify the title, description and image of the home page.
However, since you have already specified them in the general settings, you can check the "Use AIOSEO title and description" checkbox.
Now scroll down a little further and you will see a social links section where you can add the URLs of your social media profiles.
In the next section, you can set up your Facebook Admin ID and Facebook App ID.
Optimizing posts and pages
All in One SEO plugin adds a meta field to every page and post on your site.
To optimize them for SEO, you need to enter a title, description and keywords.
The specified settings will override the main site settings.
If you leave everything unchanged, the plugin will use your global settings to automatically fill in the meta fields.
So, he will use the post title as a collateral, the first lines of the post as a description, and tags as keywords.
Moreover, you can set the nofollow and noindex options if you do not want to index individual pages or posts of the site.
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I hope you found the article helpful.
As you can see, the All in One SEO plugin is quite easy to use, but requires a detailed study of all its functions.
If you have questions, write in the comments.
