New: WooFramework Gets SEO-love

WooFramework SEO

In the past we definitely haven’t been the biggest fans of SEO and whilst we’ve never disrespected the benefits of paying attention to the SEO of a website, we’ve never really made it super-easy for our users to really invest in SEO if you so wish. This however changes big-time, with the addition of a few advanced SEO controls to the WooFramework…

So in the past couple of weeks, we’ve had a good look at what seems to be best practice with regards to SEO integration on WordPress themes; also considering that there are already a few popular SEO plugins that are widely used by many WP users. What we have thus done, is to include the most important controls to maximize the SEO benefits for your content.

These are some of the features included:

• 3rd Party plugin support (All-in-One-SEO & Headspace 2)
• Advanced & Dynamic Page Title control
• Indexing & Follow control
• Custom & Dynamic Meta Description / Keyword control

Don’t worry if those terms don’t make much sense; we’ve made it easy for you…

An Example of the SEO controls

3rd Party Plugins

First thing we wanted to do, was to make sure that we didn’t step on the toes of existing plugins, as they should be able to take preference & priority if an user has been using them for a while. We are thus supporting both Headspace 2 & All-in-One SEO, where you have the option of either giving those plugins control over SEO functionality OR to use the controls that we have built in.

More Controls

We have also included settings to help you specify global controls (as the one showed in the screenshot above), or tweak the output on individual posts & pages:

SEO controls on a post

What about the HTML?

Another basic principle of SEO is to make proper use of heading tags (i.e. h1, h2…), which you will find we have done in all of our latest themes. Some of our older themes may however not be entirely optimized in this regard, which won’t hamper you from using the WooFramework SEO controls, but as part of full disclosure we didn’t want to claim that we were SEO experts all of a sudden (there seems to be too many like *those* recently) and that our themes are perfectly SEO’d…

Get it!

These functions & controls are already available in the latest version of the WooFramework and also thus all of our themes. So you can start using this immediately after upgrading your version of the WooFramework to the latest one (use this tutorial as a help guideline).

Enjoy the new features and hoping to get some feedback on these!

NOTE: We are currently working with the ScribeSEO guys to integrate their awesome plugin into our WooFramework SEO functionality and this should be available in the near future.