Yoast WordPress SEO Plug-in Overview & Keyword Tips

SEO Plug-ins are used to ensure that Google and other Search Engines "see" what your information is on each page of your website. If all your pages are coded the same way (which is the case for many sites) you cannot be found for all the wonderful, details posts and pages you write because Google thinks every page on your florist website is about "Flowers". That is not going to help you gain more traffic to your site!

In the "old days" (pk. maybe 3 years ago) everyone liked "All-in-One" Seo and "SEO Ultimate" and "Platinum SEO Pack". Today, everyone is raving about "Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin" and for good reason. It ROCKS!

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It helps you use keyword focused content, it rewards you with a red, yellow, green button system to encourage you to fine-tune your pages for maximum emphasis of your keywords and it ensures the canonicalization of each and every page on your blog is recognized by search engine. Don't know what that means? Come to this overview!

I will show you on the backend of a WordPress site how to set up your page using the Yoast WordPress SEO Plug-in. There will be no presentation slides. Just a sort of workshop environment. So, get ready to pull up a chair and start tweaking your site to get higher rankings for all your efforts. I will provide hand-outs to help you remember the order of things to take care of within the plug-in so you can take notes on the handouts.

I will also discuss the Google Keyword Tool. There have been some changes in this area as well, I will show you what has changed. It helps you to define and target a specific set of keywords.

It was suggested to start the meetings a bit later so people can grab a bit of dinner before these meetings so let's try it with this session. The Mary 22, 2013 meeting will begin at 6:30 pm.

P.S. If you check with techies from the past most of them are using these older plug-ins because they are used to using them or they bought the upgrade and now are locked into using it. Platinum SEO has not been updated in over 2 years. Do you think they are keeping up with Google changes? NOPE. So - don't be afraid to switch over to a new plug-n that can enhance your site in tremendous ways. Don't we all want to come up for more results in queries? Yes! Join us!

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Did you see how many downloads there have been with this plug-in? Over 4.6 million! And a 5 star review from many WordPress users. Take a look at this powerful plug-in.

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