No plugin-button in Admin

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  marikewouters · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 5:13 pm

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  Hi,

  I have a question about plugins in WordPress.
  I do not have a plugin-button in my WP Admin and I want to download a SEO-plugin for my website.

  I have a WP-account with the theme Sketch.
  Can anybody help me with this?

  Thanks in advance,
  Marike

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 5:16 pm

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  There is no such install plugins tab/button on any WordPress.COM hosted blogs now and there never has been one. There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  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. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database. Learn about the differences here. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 5:17 pm

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  This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture. We WordPress.COM bloggers cannot access metadata. But its 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. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/

  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 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

  The good news is that 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.`

  Read http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

  SEO and Your Blog