xml sitemaps are an essential part of current day seo, and can thus not be excluded from a complete wordpress seo plugin. while there are other wordpress xml sitemap generators out there, they don't talk to your seo plugin. meaning that if you noindex a page, preventing it from showing up in google, it might still be in your sitemap. they also don't allow you to keep certain taxonomies out of your sitemap. this plugin does. and, to boot, it makes your xml sitemaps look good by using an xslt stylesheet on them, so humans can read them too.
edit your robots.txt and .htaccess
with recent releases, wordpress has added more and more bloat to the <head> section of wordpress installs. luckily it also has methods to remove those. checking a few boxes in the backend will make sure your blog doesn't give out any of its secrets.
when google introduced the canonical link element, to distinguish the "original" page from derivative pages within your site carrying the same content, they reached out to me to develop a wordpress plugin for it, and i did. later on, canonical link elements were added to core. they work fine, with one caveat: they only work for single posts and pages, not for categories and tags, not for the homepage. the wordpress seo plugin fixes that, and sets the correct canonical on each of those pages.
rss enhancements
breadcrumbs
don't you hate it when someone adds /2 to the end of a link towards you? or links with all weird variables at the end of the url? you have a solution now! just checking one box will redirect all that stuff away,
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the yoast breadcrumbs code has been powering many (premium) themes breadcrumbs for ages. using the same code, the wordpress seo plugin now gives way more granular control over this breadcrumb. you get to determine, for each post type, which taxonomy to show. you get to determine for each post,
http://www.usajerseyssales.com/, page and taxonomy, what title to use for that specific entity in the breadcrumb paths it appears in. full control, that's what this entire wordpress seo plugin is about.
editing your robots.txt and .htaccess files has never been this easy: you can edit them straight from the files menu of the wordpress seo plugin, so you can easily check and or update those files and keep it all nice and clean.
my rss footer plugin used to allow you to add a piece of content to the beginning or the end of posts in your rss feed. the wordpress seo plugin goes one step further and allows you to add content to both of them, allowing you to link back to your blog and the specific blog post, which is very helpful when you have a lot of people scraping your blog.
permalink clean up
this works for all tags, categories and custom taxonomies. as you can see there are two other yet unexplained features there, canonical and breadcrumbs. let's touch on those:
clean up head section
canonical
xml sitemaps
page and taxonomy
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