Thread: Best SEO for Classipress - and settings

Best SEO for Classipress - and settings

Hi Friends,

I am used to using the All in One SEO plugin for Jobroller and it has always worked great. I am now using it on a classipress site and although I have lots of content and mannipulated keywords / content etc - it is not delivering very well at all.

I have a great two word domain name and for some reason am only going "down" in my Google rankings.

Could someone advise as to the best settings for the All In One SEO in a classipress site - OR if they have found another plugin that works better - please advise?

Cheers and thanks,

Mark

VancouverJobs.ca

Currently I use this plugin "Wordpress SEO", in my opinion this is the best SEO plugin.

Hi barukar,

I took your advice and have now installed and "configured" the Yoast SEO plugin. Thank you for your recommendation and I shall be sure to deliver you an update as to how it performs - in 36" place for my search term keywords "vancouver jobs" (yes - a competitive space) but shall see what it is on Wednesday :P I was at 22 a few weeks ago but with all my "adjustments" have dropped - even though I have a helper that is "scraping" and inputting fresh content 5 days a week.

My only concern is if I have configured the plug in properly. I went through the menus and albeit they are many times helpful in advice - but not so much with meta descriptions and title choices. This is where I am very unsure if I have done efficiently / correctly. I do have my BCTechnologyJobs.com (a technical site with good results - and used domain gripping) as well as vancouvergamejobs.com (same thing) pointed to this url so that is why I am using / applying the wording if you wondered.

What would I have to do to get an opinion on the settings / inputs to make sure I am doing it right - to it's best potential? I can pop u some loot - or deliver you payback in another creative way if desired - as a quick view of what I have implemented on my back end would be "more than awesome".

I don't expect this as part of any support so if my request is out of bounds I totally understand and absolutely no whining from me

Cheers,

Mark


VancouverJobs.ca

I am using "Wordpress SEO" but i cant solve the title problem

Ad_listing
Title template: %%title%% >> %%Ad_cat%% - DONT WORK
Meta description template: %%excerpt%% works but have some text utf-8 error

anyone can help?

I have used the 'All in One' SEO plugin since I started using Classipress and it works a treat - I can have an advert put on today, do the SEO for the search terms I want and have it on the front page of Google within 24-48hrs of publication....

Using an SEO tool is pointless unless you understand SEO and how it works and of course, you need to understand how to configure your plugin correctly not only for your MAIN landing page, but also on each advert.

For example, ALL IN ONE SEO recognised the CUSTOM POSTS that are 'Ads' in Classipress and this option needs to be selected in the AIO SEO Settings...!

Guys i have configured SEO yoast settings for classipress as follows but
General Home Post Types Taxonomies Other Help

Categories

Title template:
Meta description template:
Meta Robots:noindex, follow
WordPress SEO Meta Box:Hide

Tags

Title template:
Meta description template:
Meta Robots:noindex, follow
WordPress SEO Meta Box:Hide

Format

Title template:
Meta description template:
Meta Robots:noindex, follow
WordPress SEO Meta Box:Hide

Ad Categories

Title template:
Meta description template:
Meta Robots:noindex, follow
WordPress SEO Meta Box:Hide

Ad Tags

Title template:
Meta description template:
Meta Robots:noindex, follow
WordPress SEO Meta Box:Hide


Settings updated.

General Home Post Types Taxonomies Other Help

Title settings

Force rewrite titles
WordPress SEO has auto-detected whether it needs to force rewrite the titles for your pages, if you think it's wrong and you know what you're doing, you can change the setting here.
Sitewide meta settings

Noindex subpages of archives
If you want to prevent /page/2/ and further of any archive to show up in the search results, enable this.
Use meta keywords tag?
I don't know why you'd want to use meta keywords, but if you want to, check this box.
Add noodp meta robots tag sitewide
Prevents search engines from using the DMOZ description for pages from this site in the search results.
Add noydir meta robots tag sitewide
Prevents search engines from using the Yahoo! directory description for pages from this site in the search results.
Clean up the <head>

Hide RSD Links
Hide WLW Manifest Links
Hide Shortlink for posts
Hide RSS Links

Guys i have configured the following settings for Wordpress SEO Yoast but my settings for posts, categories, media and ads doesnt appear the way i have configured them on search engines. Is there any recommendations or a way to fix this?

TAXONOMIES

Categories

Title template: %%term_title%%
Meta description template: %%category_description%%

Tags

Title template: %%term_title%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta description template: %%tag_description%%

Format

Title template: %%term_title%% Archives %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta description template:
Meta Robots:noindex, follow - checked

Ad Categories

Title template: %%term_title%%
Meta description template: %%category_description%%


Ad Tags

Title template: %%term_title%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta description template: %%tag_description%%

POST TYPES
Posts

Title template: %%title%%
Meta description template: %%excerpt%%

Pages

Title template: %%title%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta description template: %%excerpt%%

Media

Title template: %%title%%
Meta description template:

Ads

Title template: %%title%%
Meta description template: %%excerpt%%

Custom Post Type Archives

Ads

Title: %%pt_plural%% %%page%%
Meta description:

OTHER

Author Archives

Title template: %%name%%, Author at %%sitename%% %%page%%
Meta description template:
Meta Robots:noindex, follow - Checked
Disable the author archives - Checked

Date Archives

Title template: %%date%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta description template:

Meta Robots:noindex, follow - Checked
Disable the date-based archives - Checked

Special Pages

These pages will be noindex, followed by default, so they will never show up in search results.

Search pages
Title template: Search Results %%sep%% %%sitename%%

404 pages
Title template: Page Not Found %%sep%% %%sitename%%

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Also am using SEO friendly images by yoast and these are my configurations

Images options

ALT attribute (example: %name %title)


TITLE attribute (example: %name photo)


Override default Wordpress image alt tag (recommended)

Override default Wordpress image title

About Wordpress SEO Yoast

Hello! I installed the Wordpress SEO Yoast in my Classipress, but, when I click on You can find your sitemap XML here: [Sitemap XML] I see a error message:

This page contains the following errors: error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document.
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

But I do not see anything below

Thanks for sharing but i do not find images options