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Excerpt: Of course, through out the course of creating and posting information on your blog you will want to use photos and images. These in themselves will need to be optimised for search engines and named and described for visitors (usually). The SEO-image plugin does this for you and once configure, sets up all the images with “Alternative” and “Title” attributes.  Alternative text in images is the small segment of text you see when you hover your mouse pointer over an image on a website and this also serves to tell the search engines what the photo or image is along with…

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Excerpt: Before we get into explaining this plugin we need to address the problem it fixes. When you create a post on your site it will have a URL or page address (depending on your permalink set up it will look different but this issue is the same) and after you create that post and address you need to change it for one reason or another, say for example you misspell a word in the title, but the problem is you have already added this address to twitter, or Digg or told someone to look at it via email. If you make a…

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Excerpt: This list is beginning to sound like a promotion for this guy, but frankly, he deserves it.  Yes it is Joost de Valk again. The Robots Meta plugin is a great way of configuring your site to allow and disallow the search engines from indexing particular pages. The reason for this is quite simple.  It means that you can advise the search engines what pages are unique and important for them to look at and which are not through adding commands such as Index, No Index, Follow and No Follow helping to avoid duplicate content issues on search engine results page. No…