We all know that All in One SEO plugin is one of the most popular wordpress plugin which is downloaded over 4 million times and SEO is all about optimizing your content and structuring your pages correctly. This plugin adds some SEO tweaks to optimize your Wordpress blog for higher search engine rankings. Getting higher search engine ranking on search engines is one of the dreams that every webmaster/blogger has, in his eyes. But this dream will give you a severe pain without realizing that you will become one of the culprits and use of this plugin shows, which version of plugin you’re using and it is not so easy that you can delete it because there is a lot of coding which takes the care that you will not be able to remove all that junk code. Installation of this plugin will change your page structure site-wide and gives you the ability to clarify what each page is about.
Now the question arises how you would become the culprit by using this plugin and what are the severe effects of using this? The severe effect of this plugin is that it directly affects your Google Page Rank, which you wouldn’t realize that how would it be possible despite of having a huge traffic in your niche.
By Default All in One SEO Plugin comes with checked option of canonical URLs. This is one of the good steps taken for SEO plugin but how, this good step decreases your page rank? We all know that Google has already introduced canonical URL option, which allows webmasters/bloggers to specify their canonical URL in the Header section of their html page which publicly display the preferred version of a URL. That means, if a single page is accessed by multiple URLs, the canonical URL option will help out search engines to identify and index the URL of your choice and this avoids duplicate content Google penalization issues. Now to prevent from this you have to redirect the canonical URL and Google will process this redirect as usual and try to index it.
Finally in the end I would like to say that there is no plugin that will help you out in any way with SEO. This plugin will help you out on page and its structure optimization so that search engine can easily understand that “what this page is all about” and helps by driving relevant links.
Recommended Read:
Step by Step Guide to Configure All In ONE SEO Plugin
Top 10 Wordpress Plugin on SEO
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RT @infoedutech Decrease Google Page Rank By Using Wordpress All in One SEO Plugin http://bit.ly/cAS4Mu
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RT @infoedutech Decrease Google Page Rank By Using Wordpress All in One SEO Plugin http://bit.ly/cAS4Mu
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Vivek,
I don’t understand how this decreases the page rank in Google? If SEO plugin already takes care of canonical URL problem, why Google will penalize the site? Ultimately Google is doing the same thing by giving option in GWT. Or do you mean to say that canonical URLs are important so that they can be processed by Google and will help in getting higher page rank?
If you install the wordpress in other folder then the canonical urls will be different from the root directory and this will make a conflict in the urls so it is better to assign a new canonical urls to avoid the duplicacy.
Woops!!! did you study properly how All in One SEO plugin assigns canonical URL ? if you install WordPress in some other directory still it doesn’t matter to ALL in One SEO plugin since it works on basis of virtual directory structure.
It would be better if you take some live website example to show your post validity, until then your post doesn’t hold true.
Yes i have study properly about it and about live example it happens to me and it affects my blog badly. then i figure out that problem and solve it by uninstalling this plugin. That’s why i have write that article that article.
Hope i clarify your doubt