Blue Collar ToddI am trying to optimize my blog coming up on search engines. Have recently crawled with Google and Bing and now have just installed the SEO plugin by Yoast. Not sure what to click or set for best options. I did click on the XLM Sitemap but not sure if I do anything after that.
For permalinks would I want to check any of these:
Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL.
Enforce a trailing slash on all category and tag URL's
If you choose a permalink for your posts with .html, or anything else but a / on the end, this will force WordPress to add a trailing slash to non-post pages nonetheless.Redirect attachment URL's to parent post URL.
Attachments to posts are stored in the database as posts, this means they're accessible under their own URL's if you do not redirect them, enabling this will redirect them to the post they were attached to.Redirect ugly URL's to clean permalinks. (Not recommended in many cases!)
People make mistakes in their links towards you sometimes, or unwanted parameters are added to the end of your URLs, this allows you to redirect them all away. Please note that while this is a feature that is actively maintained, it is known to break several plugins, and should for that reason be the first feature you disable when you encounter issues after installing this plugin.
