How can I install WordPress SEO by Yoast?

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  misublogga · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 5:03 pm

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  I’d like to install WordPress SEO by Yoast but I don’t know how

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  misublogga · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 5:04 pm

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  Hi, any idea on how to install plugins? Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 5:18 pm

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  Hey! The searchbox works like a hot damn here.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 5:19 pm

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  The answer is “you can’t”. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we bloggers cannot install any plugins. To have plugins you need to hire a web host and set up your own self hosted WordPress.org install. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  There is no upgrade you can purchase that changes this.

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  misublogga · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 5:35 pm

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  Oh, that’s a shame…thank you very much!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 5:35 pm

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  The SEO here at WordPress.com is very good. There is no need for the plugin. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 5:46 pm

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  There is no shortcut when it comes to learning and employing on page SEO.

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  misublogga · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 6:37 pm

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  Thanks again to both! After more researching, I’ll do my homework.

  Great to have such a responsive forum!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 6:54 pm

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  You are welcome.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 14, 2013 at 7:11 pm

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  These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

  If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

  See also http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/