Best Wordpress SEO Plugin?

[ses5909]

There are so many out there, what do you use?

[Jeremy]

the only one I use is one that automatically takes X number of words from your post and adds it to the meta description.

[ses5909]

the only one I use is one that automatically takes X number of words from your post and adds it to the meta description.

You're too lazy to look it up aren't you :D

[Jeremy]

You know me too well :D It is this META Description (http://guff.szub.net/2005/09/01/head-meta-description/) plugin

I'm kind of ignorant as far as SEO goes, so I'm curious as to what a plugin could really do? For me, I just want to make sure I have the appropriate meta info, such as title, keywords, description, etc. Then I make sure the content loads first and have a descriptive permalink structure. If there is more to it I'm all ears.

[CompiledMonkey]

I use that as well. I also edited the URL rewrite being done so my URL's are nice, short, and to the point of the topic.

As an example: http://www.compiledmonkey.com/the-blog-experiment-blogging-101 :D

[ses5909]

The plugin (http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/) Moses mentioned in another thread also puts your post title before your blog title in the URL which is handy to have.

[adalante]

Yea, that All in One SEO Pack is a pretty good plugin indeed.

[Jeremy]

If you don't want to deal with a plugin for setting the title to display the page title first you can just use this code in your header:

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' :'; } ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

That way it will read: This Post is Awesome : Blog Name

You could always just drop the bloginfo() altogether and use the post title. Either way, I think that is an important change to make.