Wordcamp Cape Town – Summary of Yoast Plugin

Yesterday, I was privileged enough to be asked to talk about Yoast’s SEO Plugin at Cape Town’s Wordcamp 2011. I gave a basic run through of what settings we use to optimise WordPress websites. Yoast’s SEO Plugin offers a comprehensive set of tools, which can help provide the perfect platform to get your website ranking within the major search engines.

In a nutshell the most important aspects of the plugin are the following:

• Title tag optimisation, use category taxonomies for extra optimisation
• Title tag optimisation, use most important keywords in the beginning
• Ensure you have setup all three webmaster tools correctly (especially Google Webmaster Tools)
• Ensure that your admin, login and tag pages are not indexable by search bots
• Hide the wordpress generator i.e. version 2.3.2 from code, which increases your wordpress security
• When importing meta data from another plugin, use SEO Data Transporter.

Here’s the video just recently launched. I welcome any critical feedback

About Neil Pursey

Founder of WebGrowth, co-partner in the GROW Academy. Passionate about SEO and WordPress. Happily married to his beautiful wife.