The Beginner's Guide to WordPress SEO by Yoast: Configuration

In general, the earlier, and more frequently site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the engine's users. — From Wikipedia, the encyclopedia. I is the best and most complete SEO plugin available for free, and it comprises of certain SEO modules. After activating the plugin, you will find panel introduced with SEO, just like the one in the image below.. This option, if checked, will disallow your Editors and Authors from redirecting post to another URL. I do not prefer hiding these links, as in RSD, WLW Manifest Links and shortlinks of your WordPress posts are helpful in way like if you use Microsoft Live Editor to Publish your posts then hiding these links is not preferred. After that, go to your profile page from the top right corner of Admin Bar, fill in Google+ URL of your profile and select your name from the list at Home Tab of WordPress SEO plugin, so that your thumbnail is displayed with the domain name in Google's Search. Make Google+ page for your blog and add URL in the box at the end, so that rel= publisher can be added.  WordPress SEO plugin allows you to configure the On Page SEO parameters for taxonomies like Categories, Tags, Formats and any Custom Taxonomies, if you have them.. In the next tutorial we will configure Social part, XML Sitemaps, Permalinks, Internal links, RSS, and will look into the robots txt file. You can find lot of contradictory opinions about what I discussed, so to be clear once again, this is how I do things at my side, and I have been working with gigantic blogs and vast networks, these settings and configurations have proven to be great in my experience...  Read more