How to Setup and Configure the Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin

Presented by SEO Expert Steve Wiideman, this tutorial is a walk-through of how one might use the various options within the Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin, including:

Customizing post titles and meta descriptions
Robots Meta configuration
Canonical URL specifications
Setting up breadcrumbs
Cleaning up permalinks
Configuring XML sitemaps
RSS enhancements
Editing your robots.txt and .htaccess
Cleaning up the head section

Set this up yourself, or have us do it for you beginning mid-May at http://www.businessbloginstaller.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• business blog installer
• yoast wordpress seo plugin
• search engine optimization
• wordpress

[shendison]

Very well done Steve - I was going to make a video like this to show to a couple of employees who were used to our All-in-One SEO setups, but now I don't have to. ;)

If there's anything I'd throw in, it would be that I DO recommend adding %%title%% and %%excerpt%% for the title and meta description, (at about 5:30 in your video) which will use the main post title for the title tag and will place the first (appx) 160 characters of the post as the description tag.

[seoexperttv]

@shendison Thanks for the awesome feedback! As I recall, pulling elements from the copy to use in title and meta data creates a higher keyword density for the content being repeated and does little for the target keyword theme.

If you perform a Google search for "title tag principles", you'll notice that I modified the action, value proposition ("that improve SEO ranking") and hand-wrote the title and meta description.

There's nothing greater than unique title and meta data for higher CTR.

[webdesy]

Yeah, I've noticed as well that there are a few differences, but it is not harm the video that much :) I like that you explained everything in detail enough to understand it for a noob. Is that OK to post that video on my site?

[topwebz]

Awesome job man. Yoast has been updated since you posted this, but it's not that much different from what you show. I appreciate you taking the time to make this video. Thanks again

[alleyoopster]

Thanks Steve, very clear and nicely paced introduction to Yoast SEO

[Robin122009]

This is such a great clip, thanks a lot for sharing.

[clickdex]

Great Video, Good Job Steve!

[Scrapcarslegallycouk]

Comprehensive tutorial thank you.

[gerardhaughey1]

Hi Steve, thanks for such an informative video which I have found to be most helpful. Just one question - why is it scary to block the indexing of category archives? I thought that this was helpful to avoid duplicate content issues. I would be interested to hear your view. Many thanks and regards - Ger

[Hitrate]

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[internetvenezuela]

The explanation was great but i recommend that you give the information about the page at the begining so we don't have to wait to the end to know it. Thanks

[TheFertileVoid]

Excellent tutorial. I'm a complete newbie to wordpress and was able to follow this easily, thank you.

Could you suggest a good theme for me to use for the best SEO?