[wp-hackers] MediaRSS plugin in Core

[Joost de Valk]

On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Nathan Rice wrote:

> Joost,
> Fair enough.  Although in terms of SEO, one would think that having  
> the
> <title> and <h1> match is optimal, no?
>
> And I agree about the custom meta description. Although, again, it's  
> fairly
> easy to get your meta description to display your post excerpt without
> confusing users with yet another field to fill in when publishing a  
> post.
>
> But like you said, if no one is proposing it, then I certainly won't  
> try to
> start and argument :-)
>
> Nathan

One more answer, if you've got more questions or remarks feel free to  
email me off list :)

Matching h1 and title is not at all necessary or even always better  
for SEO purposes, depends on the goal of both. It could very well be  
that the goal of the title of your page is more to entice people to  
click, whereas the goal of the h1 might be, f.i., to contain important  
keywords.

The excerpt is usually too long and doesn't contain what a description  
should contain: a small piece telling ppl why they should be clicking  
this article, so I usually write a custom one.

But then again, that might all be just too much work for 90% of the  
users, so no need to include it in core i guess :)

Best,
Joost


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> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> I don't think anyone proposed that, and I myself would -1 it too if  
>> it
>> were, because I use another plugin for what it does (HeadSpace2).  
>> On the
>> other hand, the ability to write a meta description and a separate  
>> title
>> could very well be integrated into core.
>>
>> Best,
>> Joost
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Nathan Rice wrote:
>>
>> All in One does the job that theme designers should be doing.  If  
>> there's
>>> a
>>> vote on including it's functionality in core, it will certainly  
>>> get a -1
>>> from me.
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Aaron Brazell  
>>> <emmensetech at gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Joel Fisher <joelfisher at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It was meant to be:
>>>>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mrss/
>>>>>
>>>>> What are other "must-install" plugins?
>>>>>
>>>>> joel.fisher
>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfisher
>>>>> www.twitter.com/joelmoney
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All in One SEO Pack.... another recommendation to 95% of my  
>>>>> clients and
>>>> others who ask.
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