How to optimize your WordPress site using All-in-One SEO plugin and Site Maps. Originally developed by Erika Barker.

1. SEO With WordPress
How to increase your web traffic

2. All in One SEO Pack
Installing the All in One SEO plugin to WordPress

3. Open Safari.

4. Go to your WordPress dashboard.

5. Select the “Plugins” panel

6. Click the “Add New” button

7. Type in the search field “All in one SEO Pack”, then
click the “Search Plugins” button.

8. Look for the “All in One SEO Pack” plugin in the list
that shows up. Click the “Install Now” link that appears
directly below it.

9. Once it successfully installs, click the “Activate Plugin”
link.

10. You should now see a red alert box that appears at the
top of the plugins page. Click the “the admin page” link
in the red alert box.

11. Scroll down and set the Plugin Status to “Enabled”

12. Scroll down and give your website a title.

13. Give a description for your website directly below the
title.

14. Type in keywords that most accurately describes the
content found on your website. Separate keywords
with comas.

15. Ensure that Canonical URLs is checked

16. Scroll to the bottom and click the “Update Options”
link.

17. Let’s add some SEO love to your articles. Click on the
“Posts” panel.

18. Select your first article.

19. When the page loads, scroll to the bottom and you will
notice the “All in One SEO pack” has installed a new
section. This is to improve your SEO for each individual
article and section on your site.

20. Give your article a title that accurately describes the article

21. Give your article a description that briefly describes the
content within your article

22. Give your article a set of keywords that describe the
content within your article. Separate keywords with
commas

23. Click the “Update” button

24. XML Sitemaps
Installing XML Sitemaps to WordPress

25. “Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your
site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest
terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a
capital S—is a list of the pages on your website.
Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that
Google knows about all the pages on your site,
including URLs that may not be discoverable by
Google's normal crawling process.”
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www.google.com

26. Select the “Plugins” panel

27. Click the “Add New” button

28. Type in the search field “google xml sitemaps”. Click
the “Search Plugins” button.

29. Locate “Google XML Sitemaps” in the plugins list. Click
the “Install Now” link located directly under the plugin
title.

30. Once the plugin has successfully installed, click the
“Activate Plugin” link.

31. In Safari, type your website address followed by
/sitemap.xml
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www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

32. You should now see an XML Sitemap page appear. If
not, please ensure you properly installed the plugin.

33. Permalinks
Changing the permanent URLs to your individual
weblog posts

34. Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual
weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of
weblog postings.A permalink is what another
weblogger will use to link to your article (or section),
or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail
message.The URL to each post should be permanent,
and never change — hence permalink.

35. A link that describes the content of a page is more
likely to place higher in the search results verses a site
without a descriptive link.

36. In your WordPress dashboard, click the “Settings” panel.

37. Under the Settings panel, select the “Permalinks”
option.

38. In Permalinks, Select the “Post Name” option. Don’t
forget to click the “Save Changes” button when you are
done.

39. The links to your articles should now look like this:
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http://www.mysite.com/title_of_article
!
and not like this:
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http://www.mysite.com/p=$123_$#%@#%#@^%^@#

40. Yay! You’re done!