All in One SEO vs Platinum SEO, SEO Plugin Battle

Jim Fisher from OutsourcingControl.com asked me about All in One SEO on Monday.   While is a fellow #Blog30 person he is also someone I met in person during Unseminar7.  He is a great person to follow on Twitter @OutsourceJim and a great guy.   Although he was asking me about how to use All in One SEO, I had to confess I switched to Platinum SEO.

However since many people may already have All in One or may be curious about it, I will go over both.

All in One SEO Settings

You can change the All in One SEO Settings by visiting the Settings tab on your dashboard. After installation this is where you will go to enable the plugin, because while you may have activated it, it will not be enabled.  Also this will have various other settings to adjust.  Here you can add your Home Page title, Home Description, and keywords related to your site. Since I am not an SEO expert, I recommend leaving the other settings as is.

All in One SEO on toast… sorry on post

Once you are finished writing your posts or page, scroll past the publish all the way to the bottom. There you will see All in One SEO. Here you can copy your post title into the meta title. Write a brief description of the material you covered. This is the description that you see when you type in a search. Next you want to type in words related to your post. The problem with Meta Keywords is that some search engines now ignore them. Too many people added keywords that were not relevant, so search engines started searching the actual article. Below that is a button to disable it on that page or post.  In this image below, you can see what this looks like with Platinum SEO, All in One looks similar until the part beneath keywords.

Platinum SEO

Platinum is in a separate box on the dashboard. You can change the settings in similar fashion to All in One. On your posts, you again will scroll to the bottom and add your Meta Title, Meta Description and keywords. There are boxes you can change beneath it, since I am not an SEO expert, and do not play one on TV I ignore these.

Why I switched

Platinum SEO does not ask for a donation with every upgrade as All in One SEO does. More importantly, should I change a permalink, Platinum SEO will do an automatic 301 redirect, which helps search engines and my readers find what they are wanting.  In addition, in the settings box I can migrate all my All in One SEO things to platinum.  (Note: You will want to back up your blog as a precaution.)  Also you need one or the other not both.  Too many plugins can cause website problems.

~ MJ Schrader