A five minute review of Yoast's WordPress SEO Plugin, delivered to the Philly 'burbs WordPress Meetup

1. Yoast’s
WordPress
SEO Plugin
in five minutes flat
Philly ‘burbs WordPress Meetup: November 2012

2. Liam Dempsey
@liamdempsey
http://liamdempsey.com

3. WordPress
is great for SEO
to begin with …

4. … so, why
do we need
a specialized
SEO plugin?

5. To let SEO consultants
work their magic

6. WordPress Better meta tag
SEO Plugin = control + other SEO
tactics functionality
than in default
WordPress.
This minute level of control can be very
helpful to those engaged in an aggressive
organic SEO campaign.

7. What does Yoast do?

8. A heck of a lot …
• Custom post titles and meta descriptions
• Robots meta configuration
• Canonical support for categories, tags +
home
• Breadcrumbs
• Permalink clean up
• XML sitemaps
• RSS enhancements
• Edit robots.txt and .htaccess
• Clean up head section

9. Reassuring data
• Compatible up to: 3.4.2
• Last Updated: 2012-10-12
• Downloads: 2,630,784

10. Resources
• http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w
ordpress-seo/
• File size: 1.78MB

11. About me
Liam Dempsey
@liamdempsey
http://liamdempsey
http://lbdesign.tv
http://chickenmonkeydog.com