The majority of us here at Wealthy Affiliate use the All in One SEO Pack plugin on our websites. Reason being is that it is highly recommended by Kyle and Carson for many reasons which you can read in Kyle’s training on it. The plugin is automatically installed when we build our websites here within WA.
The image above is my WordPress dashboard for all posts. I am only showing you one post so as to keep this explanation as simple and confusing free as possible. You too will see the same thing for all of your posts on your website within your WordPress dashboard. Going from left to right this is what you will see.
- The Post Title (which automatically becomes your Meta Title Tag)
- The Author of the post which is your name (or Admin if you haven’t changed it)
- The Categories you have selected your post to appear under on your website
- The Tags (these are blog post tags, NOT meta tags)
- The Comments Indicator
- The Date the post was published
- The Post ID Number
- The SEO Title
- The SEO Description
- The SEO Keywords
WHY NO TITLE, DESCRIPTION AND KEYWORDS
Most of the confusion with webmasters, especially the newbies, about the filling in of the meta tags begins here. As you can see in the top image and again in the above image, I have No Title, No Description and No Keywords for all (or most) of my posts. Why is that? Well technically I do but here is why you see it that way.
One of the reasons Kyle gives in his training on the All in One SEO is of its simplicity of use.It takes care of creating the Meta Title and Meta Description Tags for you behind the scenes. So in actuality you DO HAVE a Meta Title Tag and a Meta Description Tag. Remember what I said in number 1 above about the post title.
The only time you will see an SEO Title and an SEO Description posted in your WordPress dashboard is when you manually type them into those meta tags yourself and NOT have the All in One SEO Pack plugin automatically do it for you. So there is no need to worry. You do have these thanks to the All in One.
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Is that correct?
I had to go back and shorten all of mine. Trust G to create more work for us...lol.
Great training, Robert. Thanks. ~Jude
They must have realized after officially increasing the snippet count to 300 characters, with everyone rushing to increase their meta description length, the difference between mobile and desktop search results was causing too wide of a gap in what appeared in mobile search and regular search results.. ~Jude
