Greg’s High Performance SEO Review
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Author | Greg Mulhauser |
| Version Tested | 1.4.7 |
| Pricing | FREE |
Usability
The plugin has several option pages where you can pretty much configure you whole search engine optimization.
Also it let’s you configure meta title and description for individual posts and pages.
One thing I really like is that you can use the “Sledgehammer Method”, which basically adds the SEO features like other plugins. Or you can implement special code into your templates to show titles, etc. This is very neat as it helps to load your pages faster using less code.
Features
This plugin enables you to configure several important SEO characteristics in each of these five areas:
- Main title
- Head section: description, keywords, robots indexing and following instructions
- Secondary title, visible in the page body
- Secondary description, visible in the page body
- Paged comments and duplicate content
A very nice feature is that only admins or specific user groups are allowed to touch the per page SEO. So normal “writers” cannot mess with the seo settings.
What I am missing in this plugin is that you can set up titles and meta descriptions on a per category basis. When you want to optimize category pages you have to install another seo plugin like All in One SEO.
Greg’s High Performance SEO also provides built-in support for titles and keywords left behind by alternative SEO and other legacy plugins such as:
- All in One SEO Pack
- Autometa
- HeadMeta
- Headspace
- Platinum SEO
- Related Posts
- SEO Title Tags
WordPress itself seamlessly imports legacy data from several plugins, providing automatic support for the following additional plugins:
- Jerome’s Keywords
- Simple Tagging
- Ultimate Tag Warrior
Customization
The full set of SEO characteristics can be configured for each of the following types of output:
- Home page
- Posts
- Pages
- Paged comments
- Tag archives (including support for the tag descriptions introduced in WordPress 2.8)
- Author archives
- Category archives
- Search results
- 404 page (irrelevant to SEO but helpful to site visitors)
Support
I did not have any issues…
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Thanks for the review. Sounds like i will try it for a few.
i’ve just been recommended this plugin as an alternative to all-in-one-seo by hostgator, they say it uses much less resources so it’s better for your hosting.
It has tons of things to configure so my question is this, will it work well “straight out of the box”? Can i just leave it set to all it’s default settings or are there particular things you recommend to manually configure?
CHEERS!