Comment posted to Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review by WordPress SEO Theme Author.
The Yoast WordPress SEO plugin won’t speed up spidering of a site per se.
If you use the Yoast SEO plugin and use nofollow on most of your archive links (Categories, Monthly and Tags) there’s a lot less links to follow, (same as if you didn’t have all the archive types) so the pages that are left might be found slightly quicker (won’t increase the number of Googlebot visits though).
Less pages on a site (nofollow effectively hides pages) faster all the pages that can be spidered will be spidered.
This is not a reason to use an SEO plugin as nofollow is SEO damaging. What you might gain in slightly faster indexing (and it will be a minimal impact) you’ll loose several times over in decreased rankings because you are wasting so much link benefit.
Are you seriously going to use nofollow even though you’ve discovered what I wrote about nofollow and the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is true?
Regarding your robots.txt file there was potential issues, blocking Googlebot from all php, xhtml pages etc… and blocking the spidering of /wp-content/ and other pages like about/contact COULD cause problems with SOME setups (depends on what else is running on the site). If all that’s on the site is WordPress, probably OK.
I wouldn’t give that robots.txt file to a newbie looking for a robots.txt file as they could block parts of their site that are not WordPress files.
Not sure what you are getting at regarding SEO themes? The perfect setup would be 100% SEO’d theme AND a site built for users. My sites that run Talian 05 currently generate over 40,000 unique visitors a day. They are almost perfect SEO wise, user wise some are better than others (works in progress).
I’d rather start from a perspective of almost perfect SEO and get a lot of traffic and work on the user experience than have an awesome looking site that is rubbish SEO wise and gets no traffic.
I’ll add the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin does not improve a users experience as the vast majority of changes are behind the scenes and they are supposed to result in an SEO’d WordPress installation, but fails in key areas (deleting and wasting link benefit).
If the author removed the nofollow features and gave a warning on the noindex feature it wouldn’t be a bad SEO plugin, there’s some interesting features.
David
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