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I have been playing with SEO plug-ins for my Wordpress blogs but I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this and if they have an opinion of which is better, using the SEO plug-ins or do it by hand?

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A practical middle path usually works best: treat an SEO plugin as a tool for site-level technical tasks while keeping editorial control at the page level. started the thread; responses ranged from advocating manual, careful copy to suggesting plugins for site-wide plumbing, and raised a sensible concern about visible plugin output.

A simple workflow that balances both:

  • Let a plugin handle repeatable technical items (canonical rel, XML sitemap, robots control, redirects, basic schema).
  • Always override template-generated meta for priority pages: craft unique title tags, concise meta descriptions, clear slugs, a single H1 and meaningful image alt text.
  • Keep title lengths concise (rough guideline ~50–60 characters) and descriptions under ~160 characters, but prioritize relevance and clarity over rigid counts.
  • Use the plugin to automate routine tasks, not to generate the editorial content that search engines actually evaluate.

On the plugin-footprint question raised by : check plugin settings first for any option that disables generator comments or extra HTML. If none exists, a safe theme-level removal of the core generator meta can be used; add this to a theme functions file or a small mu-plugin:

<?php
/* add to theme's functions.php or a small mu-plugin */
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' );

Plugin-specific HTML comments or meta may require a plugin-provided filter or a small output filter; editing plugin files directly is discouraged because updates will overwrite changes. Changes should be tested on a staging site and Search Console monitored for crawl/indexing issues.

Summary: use plugins to enforce correct technical signals and to save time, but rely on manual, page-by-page editorial work for titles, descriptions, headings and internal linking. Periodic audits (sitemaps, duplicate titles, canonical tags) complete the loop and address the key concerns raised in the thread.

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Member Avatar for surindersharma

still i am not use this

Member Avatar for canadafred

I have been playing with SEO plug-ins for my Wordpress blogs but I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this and if they have an opinion of which is better, using the SEO plug-ins or do it by hand?

Anytime you can write a Title by hand, anytime you can write a description, anytime you can work an alt attribute, anytime you can craft a heading, anytime you can work by hand is a good SEO time. Avoid automation.

Edited by canadafred because: correction
Member Avatar for thefandango

The answer is both. Use all in one seo plugin etc, but also as someone else said remember that onpage SEO is what you write.

If you mean should you somehow be going into the files and manually entering stuff into tags, then no you shouldn.t and can't anyway.

Member Avatar for AirForceOne

I think the all-in-seo add-on should be useful for on-page seo of wordpress blogs but there are more important to perform off-page seo jobs. :)

Member Avatar for MktgRob

Anytime you can write a Title by hand, anytime you can write a description, anytime you can work an alt attribute, anytime you can craft a heading, anytime you can work by hand is a good SEO time. Avoid automation.

Absolutely agree. I am talking about moving beyond that in terms of SEO. With wordpress apps I usually get really good results for each but I have not really used any of the SEO plugins so I was curious if anyone has tried both ways and has some feedback. Thanks.

Member Avatar for morkat

I found All-in-one-seo plugin is good but it leaves tags which tell rivals that I am using it, is there anyone can tell me how to remove it?

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