SEO Help

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  mnteverest · Member · Jan 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm

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  I have downloaded ‘wordpress-seo’ but not sure how to add it to my site.

  Can anyone help please, thank you.

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 15, 2015 at 6:34 pm

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  You cannot use it on any WordPress.COM hosted blog. 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 · Jan 15, 2015 at 6:37 pm

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

  This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs 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/
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/12/05/keyword-power-in-the-blogging-world/

  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.

  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