WordPress SEO by Yoast is most popular free SEO plugin for WordPress. It has been downloaded 16,564,599 times so far and probably you must be using it on your blog. If you are, you should immediately update the plugin on your blog. A freelance security consultant named Ryan Dewhurst discovered a security flaw in the plugin. This could put your WordPress site into danger and could be hacked. Here is the technical description of the vulnerability: “The authenticated Blind SQL Injection vulnerability can be found within the ‘admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php’ file. The orderby and order GET parameters are not sufficiently sanitised before being used within a SQL query.” Though this vulnerability can be used by hacked using Social-engineering. As they can tempt any admin, editor or author to click on a link and this could compromise your site. Note: Without reading any further, update SEO by Yoast plugin on your blog. Yoast acknowledged this … [Read more...] about [Security Alert] Update WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin – Over A Million WordPress Blog At Risk
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WordPress SEO Plugins Making WordPress Blog Search Engine Friendly
Home » SEO » WordPress SEO Plugins Making WordPress Blog Search Engine Friendly WordPress one of top blogging platform is home for millions of blogs. People use search engines to find contents of their choice. So we need to create search engine friendly blogs so that people are able to find them in search engine for targeted terms. WordPress has lots of seo plugins to help us in making our blogs search engine friendly. But we cannot use all seo plugins, we need to go for best only that are really effective. So if we have used right plugins with other search engine optimization techniques, we will enjoy lots of traffic on our blog from search engines. Lots of WordPress seo plugins are available for free but there are some plugin for which we need to pay some money before using them. Read More About:10 WordPress Plugins for Massive Traffic Building on your BlogPremium WordPress Plugins: Top Premium Plugins worth Paying WordPress SEO Plugins List So here is the list of 10 … [Read more...] about WordPress SEO Plugins Making WordPress Blog Search Engine Friendly
The Problem With Unlimited WordPress SEO Plugins
Sometimes, I wish I never knew about SEO, so that, I could write articles without worrying about Keyword research, Ranking on the first page of Google or driving an insane amount of traffic. Truth is, over the time this has become a necessity. Without traffic, our blog is just a star among countless stars in the universe which people would never know about. So, that’s where SEO comes in. WordPress being the best platform for blogging comes with an ample amount of plugin options. We wish to make our WordPress blog SEO optimized, we have hundreds of plugin for the same. We wish to make our blog secure, we have an unlimited number of WordPress security plugins available. All the other plugins are fine but what worries me is the number of SEO plugins available for WordPress. Do a simple search in Google for “WordPress SEO plugins” and you will be bombarded with options like: These are just a few of them. Now the question is what SEO plugin should we rely on and how many … [Read more...] about The Problem With Unlimited WordPress SEO Plugins
5 Basic WordPress SEO Practices for WordPress Bloggers
We have already talked about advantages of using WordPress as your Blogging platform and one of the many reasons is SEO. When it comes to Search engine optimization of WordPress Blog, it’s fairly easy to achieve with few changes and many SEO plugins available for WordPress. Here at ShoutMeLoud, we always talk about various Search engine optimization technique and this post is dedicated to WordPress Bloggers who are looking forward to improve their WordPress Blog SEO. Honestly, anyone can create a WordPress Blog and start blogging to get traffic. Apart from quality content, there are few SEO settings will make sure your WordPress blog is optimized for search engines. Whenever I talk about driving traffic to your site, it’s organic traffic which is best as it helps you to get targeted traffic. In this article, I will be sharing few WordPress SEO practices which you should implement on your blog from today, and it will help you to get more traffic from search engines like … [Read more...] about 5 Basic WordPress SEO Practices for WordPress Bloggers
How To Set Up Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin
This is the guide to configuring the SEO By Yoast plugin. In the 3.0 version, some changes have been made to the UI, but the configuration is still the same. I have updated this with editing meta description & titles for single posts, which has changed in version 3.0. Whenever we talk about the best SEO Plugins for WordPress, SEO by Yoast emerges as a prominent name. Many of you who are using the All In One SEO plugin should know about this much more advanced plugin, which is available in WordPress with the name, “Yoast SEO“. This plugin has integrated many known features of other plugins by Joost de Valk (for example, the Meta Robots plugin, the RSS Footer plugin, and many others). Since this plugin offers many features, setting up the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is not that easy. For this reason, I am sharing a tutorial which will help you transition from All In One SEO to the Yoast SEO plugin, and help you … [Read more...] about How To Set Up Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin