I sure could use some help with installing the SEO plug in for the Bouquet theme

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  tvos2010 · Member · Jul 11, 2014 at 1:13 pm

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  I would like to install a SEO plug in to use on my blogs. One of them is the freebie – Bouquet theme. I am not finding a place in my menu that has anything to do with plug in additions etc.
  I would appreciate any feedback, tips or tricks
  Thank you and have a great day :-)

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

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  timethief · Member · Jul 11, 2014 at 4:25 pm

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  That’s not possible.

  If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install.

  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.com blogs.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins and or any third party themes.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 11, 2014 at 4:26 pm

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  This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs at WordPress.com share a common architecture and we bloggers cannot access metadata. That being said it’s of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. What is important is keywords found in your content. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/

  WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same 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.

  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

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  tvos2010 · Member · Jul 15, 2014 at 11:27 am

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  Thank you so much for the information…and the direct links.
  I have been led to understand that SEO is like the ultimate focus for ones content to be found, and would like to make mine better.

  The links and info. certainly will be valuable tools.
  I am going to take a few minutes after work to check things out further.

  I appreciate your time and consideration
  Have a great day :-)