Installing WordPress SEO Plugin
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I want to add the WordPress SEO Plugin designed by Yoast but am unable to because the plugin feature is no longer available. What are my other options?
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While plugins are common on self hosted WordPress sites, due to security concerns, they are not available on WordPress.com. There is more info regarding WordPress.com and plugins here:
Also, for more information on the differences between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress sites, please see:
In general, the SEO power that WordPress.com has as a whole far outstrips what a free plugin can do for a self hosted. Nothing is true in every situation, but in my experience blogs are better off on WordPress.com in terms of SEO. WordPres.com is very highly indexed by the search engines.
Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.
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Please read:
All About SEO on WordPress.com http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
and SEO and your blog 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
It takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. What attracts search engines is unique content the cannot in posts that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/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/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
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Bien que les greffons sont communs sur les sites WordPress auto organisé, pour des raisons de sécurité, ils ne sont pas disponibles sur WordPress.com. Il est plus d’information concernant WordPress.com et plugins ici:
Aussi, pour plus d’informations sur les différences entre WordPress.com et sites WordPress auto-hébergé, s’il vous plaît voir:
En général, la puissance de référencement qui WordPress.com a dans son ensemble dépasse de loin ce que un plugin gratuit peut faire pour une auto hébergé. Rien n’est vrai dans toutes les situations, mais dans mon expérience blogs sont mieux lotis sur WordPress.com en termes de référencement. WordPres.com est très fortement indexée par les moteurs de recherche.
S’il vous plaît laissez-moi savoir si vous avez des questions ou si quelque chose n’est pas clair.
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SEO should be on any $99 standard package. This is my first time buying this feature via wordpress.com as I generally pay about $170 a year for 6gb (I gain 4gb in WP, but I loose the ability to add plugins? dunno about this!) and have the ability to install ANY plugin I wish. What shocks me is for this right and feature I have to shell out $300 for an enterprise account?!??! you’ve got to be kidding. This is my idea, to pit the WordPress $99 account over a VHP and all the trimmings… it’s a year experiment however.. the lack of SEO programming for $99 is the first strike against renewing!
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I forgot to mention I have 23k+ UNIQUE IP HITS on my wordpress food blog that I host myself! From my SEO techniques and plugins. http://travelingtaste.com if anybody wanted to see.
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Please read:
All About SEO on WordPress.com http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
and SEO and your blog http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/To move your content you need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme as they cannot be exported. See 3 below.
Note: Premium Themes that are licensed for WordPress.com use only cannot be transferred to self-hosted WordPress.org sites. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/
Also note that if you have purchased a premium theme you will have to contact the theme designer and request a wordpress.org version of it.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/
2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/themes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.
4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
NOTE: WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
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@timethief It’s great that you re-posted a cut-and-paste response from your first posting at the top of the string. What the SEO pages (and links provide) and the info seems very romper-room’ish, or an Automatic Car principal.. I’m used to a stick transmission when it comes to my SEO control. All the info your links provided just reminded me that this experiment might have been a mistake, but a good $99 learning lesson why I should not do this again…
Thus far:
1) I have no SEO control, outside my links and catagories.
2) I can’t control what description/sampling of text comes with the headers
3) I can’t use linkbacks (might be a different gripe) within the SEO that WordPress control’s 80-90% of…
4) Auto-Creation of my XML file.. I have no control over it?? really?!!?!
5) Too Many Catagories and tags.. “how many is too many?” What if you’re blogging (like I do) for an event that has a multitude of layers… Example:Live Acts (as the catagory slug)
band1 (sub slug)
band2 (sub slug)
band2 website (2nd sub of sub slug)for example.. that ties into my SEO when I control it manually… but nope.. not here..
@timethief Do me a favor, if you’re going to respond to me.. please don’t insult my intelligence.. don’t cut-and-paste your answer.. Type it.. or don’t bother please.
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You really aren’t reading this.
WordPress.com SEO is greater than WordPress.org SEO no matter what plugins you may add in.
If you want SEO, this is a better choice. If you can’t live without the control you desire, you will have to give up some SEO to go with an independent install of WordPress.org. This is a very black and white question. Pick one and go with it.
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@raincoaster – Thank you for an honest response.. I did read it.. I just wonder, I spent $99.00… how much “more” control will I get if I upgrade to the $300.00 <– how much control will the enterprise give me.. or is all of wordpress.com hosted experience (vs a VHP) all Automatic… that’s the question I really have. I truly thank you for the typed response.
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I am closing this thread, as the question about plugins has been answered several times.
@thetemporaltimes we explain the Business upgrade here: http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/wordpress-business/ . Please note that this upgrade is not the same as our WordPress Enterprise service, http://wordpress.com/enterprise/
If you have questions about the Business upgrade, you are welcome to post a new thread. If you have questions about Enterprise, please use the contact form on the link above.
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