Credits to whom Credits Deserve!
First to say - I love WordPress! It has never been easier working on a website. WordPress designers and developers are all doing a wonderful, job and WordPress is getting better by the day, more beautiful layouted templates are available every day and new Functionality is added with new plug ins on daily bases. Everybody can now built his own website and start adding content within minutes. But… there is a problem that needs to be addressed to the designers as well as the developers of WordPress plug ins:
SEO first than credits! I think every WP blog should have a credit page by default (instead or additional to the about page). Maybe someone will take the time to create a plug in that adds all design and plug in credits automatically to this “credits” page.
But the header of anyones website than your own is no place for advertising!
Developers Please start to acknowledge some basic SEO rules:
- The meta title tag MUST be the first meta tag after the charset tag!
- The meta description tag MUST be the one following the title tag!
- The meta keyword tag MUST be the third one of this trio!
There is no doubt about even Google using the Title tag, so why put it so far down and hide it behind loads of other tags?
All in one SEO is one of the best SEO plug ins there is, but… it places the description tag and the keyword tag far below the rest of the meta tags, and adds TWO Really unnecessary comment tags into the header.
The header of someones website is not the place for egocentric behavior nor product advertising! I love the plug in; but creating an SEO plug in for such a huge community carries some responsibility as well: It should be SEO friendly, at least as far a common knowledge goes.
My comment about this matter on Ueberdose’s blog was answered with “doesn’t matter where the tags are placed as long as they are in the header”, while every serious working SEO manager will tell you otherwise!
I sure hope this will change in the future and we will all have nice and search engine friendly headers in our WordPress blog by default without tweaking plug ins and page headers first. Not everybody is capable of doing this and i get more and more people asking me for help on this. I’d rather be more productive than an SEO repair shop and it would be no problem to change it by default.
The “All in One SEO” Plug-in
Before activating all in one SEO, the description and the keywords meta tags are in the right position. After activating the plug in, both of the tags move down, sometimes the original meta description and keywords tags remain and have to be removed manually from the template header file! It’s not a good idea to have two such tags in the header.
I added this ‘proposal’ in the WordPress Forum, so if you want to know what others have to say about this, check it out. I’d be happy to collect some opinions on this subject, so feel free to leave a comment here.
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