The Best Wordpress SEO Plugin and How to Use It (with video!)

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wordpress seo expertFor those of you that use Wordpress, hopefully, you are using some type of SEO plugin. Or, perhaps you have a theme that has built-in SEO.

Whatever your SEO solution now-- plugin, theme, or nothing-- I would highly recommend using the Yoast SEO plugin, which you can download here.

He has even updated the plugin recently, so that your face will appear in  the Google search results. I recently wrote about adding your face to the Google results with ActiveRain.

You can find that post here.

I made a video, exclusively for ActiveRainers just a few minutes ago. It explains how to install and use this SEO plugin in your own Wordpress-powered website.

The video is about 11 minutes long. It's probably boring and one day, I'll start editing out all of the ums and uhs... But for now, this is what I have for you.

Even if you have Yoast installed and this video is too basic, please stay tuned.

Tomorrow, I will post another video that gets more detailed into how to use the plugin to rocket your Wordpress site onto the front page of Google. If my instructions are followed closely, you should see success right away.

 

This is a high-resolution video with lots of tiny details. I would recommend expanding it to full screen! And if you don't see the video below, refresh the page...

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Comments (23)

SEO Expert: Michael George
Phoenix, AZ
Real Estate and Law Firm SEO

Debbie-- I'll put a video on using the Wordpress plugin to get your face in... But I thought you already did that successfully?

Jun 26, 2012 11:04 AM
Gene Riemenschneider
Home Point Real Estate - Brentwood, CA
Turning Houses into Homes

I shared and I hope to install tomorrow on my word press blog.  Thanks for the post.

Jun 26, 2012 01:35 PM
Mark Delgado
houses for rent, Solano County & Glen Cove - Benicia, CA
Benicia and Vallejo, Property Management, rental h
Sweet! I'm developing a Wordpress site now do your information is very timely. Thank you for sharing. I've bookmarked for future reference.
Jun 26, 2012 02:03 PM
Joe Petrowsky
Mortgage Consultant, Right Trac Financial Group, Inc. NMLS # 2709 - Manchester, CT
Your Mortgage Consultant for Life

Thank you for sharing the information with all of us. I will share this with all those in my office as many are using Wordpress as well.

Jun 26, 2012 08:06 PM
Lee & Pamela St. Peter
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices YSU Realty: (919) 645-2522 - Raleigh, NC
Making Connections to Success in Real Estate

VBlogger Group

Another good instructional video for WP users

 

Jun 28, 2012 01:39 AM
Melissa Marro
Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team - Orange Park, FL
Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

I use this plugin for all of my WP sites. Looking forward to the next video you promised =)

Jun 28, 2012 06:53 AM
Robert Stolze
PCS, LLC - Buford, GA

You know your stuff Michael.  I have found Yoast the easiest and best SEO plugin for Wordpress.  It has a couple hiccups on the "keyword NOT shown in first paragraph" which is often incorrect, but other than that found it to be nearly perfect!

Jun 30, 2012 02:21 AM
Chiara Petro
eXp Realty - Angie Cody Team - Knoxville, TN
Your KEY to Home Sweet Home - Knoxville TN

Out of curiosity, would it still be wise to use Yoast's SEO plugin instead of the built-in SEO with the Genesis Framework? Genesis' built in seo seems to be less heavy (meaning resource using on the back end).

Jul 04, 2012 08:26 AM
Sonia Riahi
TourZap - Orléans, ON

Thanks for sharing this! It's fantastic - we can't wait to implement it for our WordPress! Also, very good video; incredibly informative and easy to follow. 

Jul 05, 2012 01:47 AM
Mimi Foster
Falcon Property Solutions - Colorado Springs, CO
Voted Colorado Springs Best Realtor

You are doing such a great job with these posts.  Too late this evening, but I have emailed them to myself to study them when my brain is fresh in the morning.  Thank you for the time and effort that you are putting in to them.

Jul 05, 2012 02:36 PM
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

Okay, now my face is showing up next to my WP blogs.  It took  a while.  I think the AR worked a couple of days later, but now it looks like the WP has caught on.  Not sure if it has reindexed all of the older ones, but it's certainly coming up for my most popular one and I wrote that one in Jan of this year. It's now getting over 1,000 hits a month as a landing page (and over 1,300 a month in total).  I have to try to replicate the success of this post in my others.  It keeps growing each month.

Jul 07, 2012 10:21 AM
Wayne Jackson
Lakeshore Realty 208-714-4109 - Hayden, ID
North Idaho Realtor, Serving Coeur dnullAlene and Hayden Lake

Michael, Is this compatible with Genisis/Studio Press/Agent Press?

Jul 22, 2012 11:58 AM
SEO Expert: Michael George
Phoenix, AZ
Real Estate and Law Firm SEO

Wayne-- it is compatible with Genesis, and thus, it should be compatible with the themes or frameworks you mention.

Jul 25, 2012 06:08 AM
Thom Abbott
MyMidtownMojo.com |770.713.1505 | Intown Atlanta GA Condo Living - Atlanta, GA
Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale

Michael...I'm loving what I see and hear...but I'm scared to death to start "deleting" my other SEO?

Aug 02, 2012 10:04 AM
Chap Fichera
Ceilings 2 Cellars Home Inspections LLC - Green Lane, PA

I'm still trying to figure out what I have so I can start.......................Dude, you're so out in front.  Got a program for Dummies?

Aug 04, 2012 11:16 AM
Thom Abbott
MyMidtownMojo.com |770.713.1505 | Intown Atlanta GA Condo Living - Atlanta, GA
Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale

Yep...I gotta say, love what you are talking about, but I haven't a clue where to start to change from current SEO settings to Yoast.

 

Aug 05, 2012 05:13 AM
Bill Gillhespy
16 Sunview Blvd - Fort Myers Beach, FL
Fort Myers Beach Realtor, Fort Myers Beach Agent - Homes & Condos

Hi Michael,  Add my thanks to those above.  I'm using " All In One " and wondering if I should delete it in favor of " Yoast " ?

Aug 22, 2012 03:49 AM
JudyAnn Lorenz
Bar JD Communications - Mansfield, MO
Virtual Marketing Consultant

The Yoast plugin is  strong tool.  By intuitively picking up on the blog post, the user always has SOME control over the meta information. I like the way the tool tells you if your keywords are compatible with the title and pick-up description.

I usually write a different meta description and use the keyword list to build out the tags.

And, don't forget the little EXCERPT box. You may have to activate it in some WordPress themes, 

First the genius of profound information, then jump on the scroll button to take care of the nitty-gritty of getting it out on the Internet in a way thata benefits your ideas.

 

 

Aug 26, 2012 01:11 AM
Adrian Willanger
206 909-7536 AdrianWillanger-broker.com - Seattle, WA
Profit from my two decades of experience

Hi Michael, Thanks for the tutorial, I've been using some other SEO plugin this makes sense. Look forward to your second video. 

Sep 30, 2012 04:04 AM
Mike Crosby
Mike Crosby Realty - Placentia, CA
Placentia- Yorba Linda Real Estate - 714-742-2897

 Michael, Thank you for the informative video.  I perfer video to just reading Blogs.  I also like watching them at 1.5-2.0 faster.  I watch the second video. 

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