All in One SEO is good as well James. I use WordPress SEO because it makes a sitemap of images in NextGen Gallery.
]]>Agreed and Agreed, but I would like to point out that being mindful of SEO while you are writing excellent content will help you craft excellent content.
For instance; and I see this all the time on artist websites. The message on their home page reads something like “Thank you or Welcome to MY website” or I have this exhibit coming up…
MY and I are not keywords. To write in the 3rd person and using your actual name and crafting a sentence that includes something about your work will go a long way to bring visitors to your site.
Alyson, when you change a post or add meta descriptions later it is always a good idea to resubmit your sitemap. There’s a plugin for that: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
I referred to that plugin on this guest post I wrote for you a while back https://aaartbizold.wpengine.com/brucewp-cms.html
If you don’t see a change in the search engine results you can manually resubmit your sitemap through your Google’s Webmaster account. Or even request that specific pages be re-indexed.
Agreed, Nate. I discourage people from focusing on SEO. Focusing on excellent content is much more productive.
I’ve always been curious, though, about updating posts later and whether those updates have as much weight as the original posting when it pings the search engines. I don’t know the answer to that.