Title: DO NOT USE
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# DO NOT USE

 *  [ppostma1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppostma1/)
 * (@ppostma1)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-not-use-8/)
 * upon further review of how SEO operates I have found this plugin to not only 
   be worthless, but counter-productive.
 * There are numerous problems beyond this by I will quickly try to summarize:
    **
   It repeats the content** as the page description, search engines consider this
   a content injection. If the post’s summary is set to be different content such
   as a teaser then it works fine.
 * **The keywords of the homepage are the currently displayed article.** Your homepage
   is not 1 article (usually), the homepage keywords should be the sites focus or
   ideals. When the homepage’s keywords are changed with the next post, the pagerank
   is reduced. However, this feature on individual article pages is great (as the
   keywords remain the same).
 * **It sets the canonical to be the current url** The canonical is supposed to 
   be the permanent url of the content when the content is being temporarily featured.
   It is never supposed to be the current url (redundant, bad).
    The homepage declaring
   itself to be the canonical of the content tells search engines the content is
   intentionally duplicated, to remain (very bad). When the homepage changes to 
   the next post, a page declaring to be canonical is changing its content (very
   bad). The article’s pagerank is reduced because the content is duplicated else
   where (bad).
 * A proper SEO pack will set the canonical only on the homepage, to be the url 
   of the content featured, it will set the keywords on the homepage to be the keywords
   of the site while the keywords on post pages to be the posts topics, and it will
   not whole-chunk duplicate the page’s content as the description.
 * With current search engine practices, this plugin currently causes more harm 
   than benefits.
 * If you need/want to use it and don’t mind modifying code, simply delete the line
   that echos the canonical tag and much of its deficiencies are resolved.

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 *  Thread Starter [ppostma1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppostma1/)
 * (@ppostma1)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-not-use-8/#post-7915458)
 * of course all of these failures are from the plug-ins default operations. If 
   you properly configure all details including the articles summary it can be benefical;
   except for its canonical use.

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