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.”
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
What if you took wordpress, an affiliate program, a membership script, a shopping cart, forum software, a banner add rotation script, a download script, the ability to podcast, and rolled it up into one package? You would have Membergate. It’s the Cadillac of membership site software coming it at a starting price around $4k!
This is a pretty cool plugin for wordpress. It’s called Affiliate Elite. You can define a keyword, and a link that goes to that keyword, as well as the style of the link, and it finds that keyword in your posts and links that keyword to the url you assigned. It has the capability to turn on the no follow tag so you don’t mess up your SEO with spiders following affiliate links. The great thing is now if an affiliate program is canceled you can easily redirect traffic to a new site, or delete the key word entirely. It’s not free. It’s $47 but for the power it provides, this could be a very useful tool, and a big time saver. Check out the video below.
SEOPress Formula – Maximize Your WordPress Traffic
If you’ve ever wanted to know how to maximize SEO with your wordpress site. It’s a pretty extensive course. Here is the table of contents.
WordPress Video: 1 – Naming Your Site For Maximum Google Traffic
WordPress Video: 2 – Install WordPress With Three Simple Clicks
WordPress Video: 3 – Manually Installation (For Maximum Control)
WordPress Video: 4 – Cleaning Up Your WordPress Installation
WordPress Video: 5 – Core SEO Site Elements & How To Get It Done With WordPress In Seconds
WordPress Video: 6 – WordPress & Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) To Easily Dominate Google
WordPress Video: 7 – Permalinks – A 30 Second Tweak To Multiply Your Online Traffic
WordPress Video: 8 – General Settings & What You Need To Know
WordPress Video: 9 – General Settings, Simplifying Your Work Space
WordPress Video: 10 – General Settings – Discussion
WordPress Video: 11 – Privacy – Careful Here
WordPress Video: 12 – Pages & Posts Basics
WordPress Video: 13 – Plugins – Basics & What They Do
WordPress Video: 14 – Links & How To Use Links Effectively
WordPress Video: 15 – Working With Various Themes
WordPress Video: 16 – Themes Part Two – Editing Themes
WordPress Video: 17 – Posting Content – The Right Way
WordPress Video: 18 – Adsense Integration
WordPress Video: 19 – Database Backup
WordPress Video: 20 – Affiliate Links / Cloaking Plugin
WordPress Video: 21 – Automatic WordPress Update
WordPress Video: 22 – Google Sitemaps Do’s & Don’ts
WordPress Video: 23 – Add A Custom Header
WordPress Video: 24 – All in One Seo Plugin
WordPress Video: 25 – Fight Blog Comment Spam
WordPress Video: 26 – SeoPress Theme *sidebar explained*
WordPress Video: 27 – Plugin: Auto Social Poster
WordPress Video: 28 – Plugin: Popshops
WordPress Video: 29 – Working With Css (stylesheets)
Now in addition to the videos there is a pretty extensive ebook to go along with it. If nothing else you can go over and sign up for his email list and get to free wordpress themes. The packages is only $57
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.
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.”
