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I recently purchased a plugin that analyzes my copy, lets me know what the search engines think about what I’ve written, lets me know what I should change to draw in more traffic, and provides tips on best SEO practices.
Scribe works with WordPress if you’re able to fill in a custom title tag and meta description for the post or page. While Scribe was originally developed for the Thesis Theme for WordPress, it also works with the free All in One SEO plugin, the hybrid theme, and the headway theme.
I have found that many of my posts were too short, and often I forgot to put a key word in the title tag. If you are using the All In One SEO plugin it’s a piece of cake to make sure the title and description are the right length to maximize your SEO efforts without getting to “keyword happy.”
It is a subscripton model (not a single price). The pricing starts at $27 a month for 30 evaluations, and goes up to $97 a month for 300 evaluations. You can use it on unlimited websites. You can try scribe for free for 30 days.
After using it on my Logical Weight Loss Podcast, I am #2 in Google for the phrase “weight loss podcast.”
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This is the last show for 2008 originating at www.weeklywebtools.com This is show 62
Mon.itor.us
http://mon.itor.us/ is a free website performance, availability, and traffic monitorig system. This system looks interesting (free is always good). In theory the business model is to get you interested enough to go with their paid service at http://monitis.com/
Test Everything
http://tester.jonasjohn.de/ is an interesting site that has tools to allow you to check your ranking, your images, social networks (I checked to see if I had been stumbled upon). Not a bad little site, although it did take a while for it to load (which seems ironic).
Google Search Engine optimization Starter Guide
Google recently released a starter guide about SEO. It’s a quick read of 6 items you should and should not be doing on your website in terms of title tags, meta tags, urls and more. Read it here.
Cool Forums For WordPress
I have not done much with them yet, but I have install the ismple press forum on this website. This ties the forums into your worpdress installation and vice versa. The great thing is all the forum adminstration is handled inside your wordpress installation. I had some issues installing it on one of my websites, but that may have been to me running Semiologic on my blog. Check it out (its free) at www.simplepressforum.com
