Explaining the All in one SEO plugin to improve your WordPress site’s SEO

The All in One SEO plugin is one of the most popular WordPress plugins used to improve and customize the SEO settings for WordPress sites, which has various customization features.

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Advantages of adding All in one SEO

The plugin provides many options for adjusting and configuring internal SEO for WordPress sites of various specializations, and it contains simple control options that can be easily accessed from within the control panel. Here are the most important SEO options that you can benefit from:

Archiving pages and articles : The add-on provides the ability to specify a title and description for the site’s pages and articles to speed up their archiving in search engines.
Customizing the way content is displayed on social media platforms: The add-on contains options for adjusting the display of content when it is published on social media sites, where you can customize the titles, descriptions, and images of the content that is shared via social media.
Creating sitemap files : Once the add-on is installed, the sitemap file is created directly automatically, and unlike many other SEO add-ons, you can modify the sitemap file options and not be satisfied with the automatic version that the add-on creates.
Alert search engines of updates: The add-on alerts search engines of any update you make within your site, which speeds up the process of archiving site content.
Ease of linking from Webmaster Tools: You can easily link your account in Webmaster Tools, whether Google or Bing, from within the control panel.
Product SEO support: If you use one of the e-store add-ons such as woocommerce, the add-on will help you set the titles and descriptions of your products in a way that helps improve their appearance in search engines.
Support for image SEO : The add-on contains a special attachment for image SEO , which helps in preparing titles and descriptions for all images within the site, even if you do not set them yourself, which helps images within your site appear in search results for images.
Video sitemap support: One of the very important extensions in the add-on is the video SEO extension, which creates a sitemap for the videos within your site, which helps them appear in search results in an organized manner.
Local SEO support: One of the most important accessories that the add-on provides you is creating profile files for search engines that contain the business name, address, and contact information, which helps your business appear on search engines in an organized and professional manner.
Activate redirection: The add-on contains an addon for redirecting links to pages that do not work on the site as a result of error (404) .
News site map: The add-on also contains a special extension for news sites, where sitemap files are created that provide Google with organized data about the news that is published on the site, and thus the site gets the advantages of displaying the content of news sites within the search results.
A comprehensive SEO analysis: The add-on contains a special add-on for analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the entire site’s SEO, which helps solve the SEO problems facing the site to obtain better results.

Install the All in One SEO plugin and configure its general settings

The plugin provides an assistant program to configure the general SEO settings within your site, by installing the plugin and activating it on your site first through the methods we explained for installing and activating WordPress plugins .

Once you install and activate the plugin directly, the plugin will open in front of you, providing you with the ability to configure the necessary SEO settings. The following tab will appear in front of you, and you can click on the green button:

After that, a window will appear for you to choose the specialty or field of your website, whether it is a blog, a news site, or anything else. This step is useful in providing the best SEO settings for your site after that:

After that, a window will appear in front of you to write the title and descriptive text for the home page, which is the title that you want to appear in search engines when the home page appears on them. It is important that you include the target word for your site within the title and description of the site’s home page:

After that, a window will appear for you to choose whether your site is a personal site (a person) or an official site of an organization or organization.

In this window, when you choose the site type, you write the main contact information, as this information may appear in the search results, which helps increase the rate of clicks on your site links:

After you finish completing all the settings required of you by the installation plugin, the add-on will directly prepare your site for SEO automatically, as sitemap files are created automatically without your intervention, and the rest of the other SEO settings are also configured within the site.

After installing the add-on, you can access at any time the statistics tab within the add-on control panel, which shows you a report of the most important SEO problems that your site suffers from, and thus you can work on improving them:

The most important SEO options provided by the All in One SEO add-on

After we completed the installation of the add-on and set up general SEO options within the site, we now begin to review the most important options and tools provided by the all-in-one SEO add-on to improve the site’s SEO and the way it is displayed in search results.

General SEO statistics and competitor analysis

From within the add-on control panel, you can access the SEO analysis tab to see the percentage of compliance of your site’s content with the SEO rules. You can also find the analyze competitor site tab , through which you can add a link to one of the sites competing with you to see complete statistics about the site and thus you can benefit from competitors’ SEO settings. To develop your site:

Controlling the SEO of all types of content within the site

When you access the Search Appearance tab from within the add-on control panel, you can go to the (content types) tab, which when you access it shows you all types of content published within your site, such as articles, pages, products, etc.:

When you access any type of content that appears in front of you, you can control its SEO options through a number of tabs that appear in front of you and through which you can control the method and appearance of its display within the search results in different search engines:

SEO options for your WordPress site articles

When you write a new article on your site or edit a previous article, you can scroll to the bottom of the article editing page to find the All in One SEO options box, through which you can control all the article’s SEO settings.

Not only that, but you can control the way the article is displayed in search engines on the desktop screen or mobile phone screen through the icons for switching the display method indicated by the arrow:

You will find that you can configure the SEO settings for the article, whether on the search results that appear on the desktop computer or the mobile phone, and thus it can provide a user experience for site visitors from the phone that is completely different from site visitors from the desktop, which gives your site an additional advantage over your competitors, as there is Some components are important to show only to mobile users and not to other users.

After choosing the display screen for which you want to configure the SEO settings, you can now write the title and descriptive text of the article that you want to appear in the search results:

You will also find a field to write the target word for the article, and in this field you specify the word that you want your article to appear in the search results when a visitor searches for it in the search engine.

You can also write additional target words that you want to appear in search engines as well, as the addition will provide you with a lot of advice on improving the appearance of your content on those words, then in the last field you will find a special tab for SEO analysis of the article that contains the strengths and weaknesses to work on fixing them:

You will also find a tab for sharing on social media platforms, where you can choose Facebook and Twitter to adjust the article sharing settings for each of them:

Through the Social Media Platforms Settings tab, you can write a title and description for the article that will appear only when sharing it on social media platforms such as Facebook. You can also specify an image that will appear with the article when sharing it on Facebook:

While you are working on improving the SEO of the article through all of these options, a notification will appear at the top of the article’s editing page showing you the SEO quality percentage. When you click on it, a wide tab will open for you containing all of the SEO changes that you must work on improving to make the article compatible with SEO by a percentage. 100%:

SEO options for your WordPress website pages

The SEO options for WordPress pages are the same as the SEO settings for articles, where you also find options for adding a title and SEO description. You can also control the options for publishing the page on social media sites, such as customizing the title, description, and image that appear when the page is published on Facebook or Twitter:

SEO options for products within your online store

You also find the same options for articles and pages when you create a new product within your store or edit a previous product, where the SEO options for the product appear, and you can add a title and description of the product that appears on the search pages, and in the same previous way you can control the options for sharing the product on social networking sites from within the tab (Social):

Do not forget that whether you are editing SEO articles, pages, or products, you can every time specify SEO options for the desktop screen as well as SEO options for the mobile phone screen if you want to separate the SEO experience for mobile visitors from the rest of the visitors:

Notice when you enter the Schema tab , you will find that the add-on automatically determines the content type on your behalf, in order to facilitate the understanding of the content type for search engines and thus improve the site’s appearance in search results. The image from within the Schema tab shows a product page on the site, where the content type was automatically determined as Product:

Also, when you enter the Schema tab of a page, you will find that the content type is set as a web page :

Likewise, on the article page, you will find the content type: Article:

Conclusion

In the end, the All in One SEO add-on is one of the distinctive add-ons whose features site owners need to know. It is easy to customize, and it also provides you with an assistant installation program that runs immediately after installing the add-on.

Always try to focus on the content of your site so that it provides the best user experience for your visitors, because adding all in one SEO and other additions is only an auxiliary factor that helps you adjust all the settings that make search engines crawl the content of the site with ease, but your appearance in the results Advanced search depends primarily on user experience and how useful your visitors are.