How to set up guide for All in One SEO Pack
All in One SEO Pack because it is one of the most popular WordPress plugins ever created (over 27 million downloads). In this beginner’s guide, we will show you how to install, setup, and use All in One SEO plugin in WordPress.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps make your website rank higher in Google and other search engines.
While WordPress provides a SEO friendly setup right out the box, there are still many things that you can do to improve your SEO such as adding meta tags, generating XML sitemap, avoiding duplicate content, etc.
All in One SEO Pack helps you do all these things with an easy to use interface that blends into your WordPress dashboard.
Note: At WPBeginner, we use the Yoast SEO plugin, but both All in One SEO pack and Yoast SEO are great plugins to optimize your website for search engines.
The basic All In One SEO plugin is available for free.
There is an All in One SEO Pack Pro version that adds additional features such as video sitemaps, eCommerce SEO, 1 year of professional support, and several other features. It costs $79 per year, and they are offering WPBeginner readers a $20 discount if you use our All In One SEO Pack coupon.
Having that said, let’s take a look at the setup process.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the All in One SEO Pack plugin.
Upon activation, the plugin will add an All in One SEO menu item in your WordPress admin menu.
You need to click on All in One SEO » General Settings to configure the plugin settings.
On the settings page, you will notice a bunch of settings. Each setting option has a question mark next to it and clicking on it will show you a help message about the option and what it does.
The first option on the General Settings page is to set canonical URLs. Specifying a canonical URL for each post allows you to avoid duplicate content penalty from Google.
In a typical WordPress installation, a single post is displayed on several locations such as your homepage, archives page, author page, category and tag pages. That’s why we recommend using article summary or excerpts instead of full posts in WordPress archive pages. Publishing full articles on all pages creates duplicate content.
