The most important thing that you should remember is that the setting which you decide to make should be the one which you recommend the most. All the different SEO’s have their own preferences and discretion. Some of them are so advanced that they are ignorable. If you are a beginner & have a desire to setup word press SEO plug-in in that case the following steps will guide you in the best possible way to setup the whole thing.
This piece of writing will take you through the step by step process of setting up a Word press SEO plug-in with ease and in an efficient manner.
Step 1: Data Transfer
All in one SEO pack is what people generally use as a word press plug-in or a theme framework like genesis. Dealing with your SEO data is generally called thesis or headway and if you wish to use plug-in with Yoast then all you need to do is transfer your previous data to the new plug-in and then proceed with the subsequent steps of setup. Once you are done with data transfer you can deactivate the old plug-ins. For transferring your data the most recommendable SEO data transporter is STUDIOPRESS. This step should be performed very carefully so as to setup this plug-in on any new blog or website.
Step 2: General Settings
In general you will see these settings in the dashboard of Yoast word press SEO plug-in. In this step all the general settings of dashboard will be explained. First thing you need to do is check all the Meta keyword tags. By doing this you will be able to see the Meta keywords in the post edit pane. Disable the date in the snippet preview for posts. Some posts and pages should be unchecked because few parts of them are advanced and need not be checked. There are few attachment areas that should be unchecked.
Step 3: Webmaster Tools
All the big search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing make use of some or the other kind of webmaster tool. Webmaster tools help you see the inside stats about your website in specific search engines. To see exclusive data you need a Meta tag or you need to upload a file. If you are afraid to add Meta tag then you can just keep this option at ease and choose to add Meta code which you received from search engines as shown in the below image.
Step 4: Title Settings
In all the SEO tabs you will see the title setting. You title settings are the most important settings. You should ensure that all your titles are capable of being rewritten on every page. If you are afraid that you will break any code in that case you can merely go with the option force rewrite titles. People generally do this when they do not want to change their theme. You have to define it in such a way that all the other titles and Meta information can be organized and pulled out which is popularly known as the title template. You can override these title templates for categories, posts, author, pages, tags and so forth. The length of your title and character description should be seventy and o ne hundred sixty respectively
Step 5: Indexation
In indexation there are some indexations rules which you need to follow. If you mess up with this step then definitely this will land you in some real trouble.
The image shown above permits you to add Facebook Open Graph Meta data so that you can avoid the problems which you face with few of the thumbnails on Facebook. To maximize your traffic from Facebook you need to have an admin ID with which you can access cool data from Facebook.
If you specifically deal with no index option you will prevent duplicate content being issued on your website. Yoast has provided so many options that are set by default and with the help of these so much of duplicate content has been prevented on most of the search engines. If you have possess a single authored blog in that case it is always better change the settings to no index option so that your main blog page looks like your author blog page. All the tag based archives and categories should be indexed because they are the main way to search content. If you want to see only single time and not multiple times like Google in that case you should make use of categories instead of tags. Next you go on to the settings of internal no follow settings and archive setting. In internal no follow settings you have to make all the no follow login registration, no follow comment links, replace the Meta widget with a no followed one to default. In archive settings all you need to do is disable the author achieves with which you will be able to set all the focus on your page link. The next section is clean head section. In this section you might be seeing a lot of extra stuff added to the head portion of your site’s page. This section will clean all the unwanted stuff which is been added to the head portion.
Once you have spent a sufficient amount of time in making these steps successful, you would naturally want for these settings to be exported just to be on the safe side so that nothing can go wrong in future. You can make use of the Import & Export settings provided by Yoast SEO Plug-in. This way you can also use the settings as a guide in future whenever you are working on a similar project.
