All-In-One SEO Wordpress Plugin Meta Data Tip
If you’ve activated this plugin in Wordpress, you may want to check that the All-In-One SEO meta tags are actually being used in your page. I.e. that your page is showing title, description and keywords generated meta tags you specified for each post.
Ensuring that these 3 meta tags are customized and published for each post will certainly help your posts rank better in search engines.
To check:
1. Open up an post / page in your browser
2. View Source
3. Check that the <title>, <meta name=”description”>, <meta name=”keywords”> are exactly what you specified them to be when populating your post.
If not, it may still be using the default Wordpress tags.
In my case it was populating the title tag fine but was not showing description and keywords. I found out that the All-In-One SEO generated tags were listed below the default Wordpress description & keyword tags.
To fix this I went into the “header.php” file via the Wordpress > Design > Theme Editor and removed :
<meta name=”description” …>
<meta name=”keywords” …>
Important: Ensure that you have All-In-One SEO Plugin turned on before doing the above.
After this I then checked out a post, viewed source and confirmed that the meta tags were now being populated correctly.
Hope this helps someone out there.
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Regularly Check Your Wordpress Files: They Could be Hacked
Last night I got a bit of shock when I discovered a strange URL in my Wordpress header file (header.php). I cut and pasted into the URL field of my Firefox browser to find that it was some placeholder site that was selling domain names!?
I believe that this could be associated to a vulnerability if one of the older versions of Wordpress that I had running.
Once I realised what was going on I immediately removed the offending link and did a scan of all the other main Wordpress files (index.php, footer.php, comments.php) just in case.
I’ve found this forum thread on DigitalPoint where other Wordpress users talk of similar hack problems especially with redirects from the wp-blog-header.php file.
How to Avoid These Wordpress Hacks:
1. Keep up to date with latest versions of Wordpress
2. Check your main Wordpress files regularly
3. Check your web stats - normally a good sign of a security breach is a visible dip in web traffic
4. Change your password regularly (I know it’s a pain)
5. Visit the Wordpress Blog for the latest news
Please feel free to share your stories and tips below.
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New Version of Wordpress (2.6) Now Available
If you are considering starting up a blog, I would highly recommend that you use Wordpress. It comes with everything you need to start a blog and is expandable with the options of adding widgets and plugins. I started using Blogger 5 years ago and just moved to Wordpress in December 2007. Since then my traffic has increased as was able to apply more SEO (search engine optimization) techniques to my Wordpress blog than Blogger.
A new version of Wordpress has just been released today. So whether you have an existing blog or commencing one, make sure you update/grab this version from the Wordpress Website.
The main enhancements of Wordpress 2.6 are:
- Ability to use previous versions of draft posts/pages
- Improved “Press This” button functionality: allows you blog on other web pages quickly and incorporate their images and text.
- Inclusion of image captions
- Preview themes before your audience does
- Gears functionality: caches image and CSS files on your PC for faster performance when writing
Below is a video of the changes in Wordpress 2.6:
Wordpress is a great blogging foundation. We’ll write more on growing this blog and optimizing it for search engines in the upcoming posts.
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