Drakenhart Studios

As I learn more about SEO and Plugins in general, I decided to trim down some of the multiple-use plugins for ones that were all inclusive. In short, fewer plugins helps the site run faster and load more quickly. So I want the power of many of these SEO Plugins without the need for so many downloads.

The Platinum SEO Pack offers this and is a pretty powerful tool. So far I like what it offers and have disabled other SEO Plugins. But I did discover something.

After visiting the Site Grader, it informed me that I had not site description or meta tag keywords. I double checked the settings of the Platium SEO Pack and everything looked fine. Then I checked my Pages. That’s when I realized what had happened.

Platinum SEO is set up so that the Blog page is your main Page. So all the settings for site description, etc, are attached to the Blog Page. Using WordPress as a CMS then requires you to do a few additional steps. You’ll need to hand-add the tags, keywords, and descriptions to each Page of the site.

Is this a major issue? Not for the majority of WordPress users who focus on blogging over CMS usage. For those using WordPress as a CMS, well it just requires a little extra work in order to make sure everything is set. As it stands it is best if you label, tag, describe, etc all your site’s Pages anyway. So this isn’t as big of a concern as it may seem.

Over all the Plugin works Great and I haven’t had any problem with it so far.