tadale6Anyone familiar with Jeff Johnson's free SEO blog software...?
http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/2/seo-wordpress-installation/
I have ZERO experience with WordPress, so I don't know if this is that special, or it is something I can achieve with a clean install of version 2.7
I have read at least 1 review suggesting these settings can be accomplished without Jeff's software, but I am not sure if that is a totally unbiased opinion.
BTW - This software only works with 2.5.1 and is limited to 5 themes...
Here are the benefits listed on his site...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tweaks
* Optimized title tags.
o Title tags play a key role in SEO, they take a strong precedence in telling the search engines the main content on each article.
* Optimized meta-tags.
o Meta tags tell search engines what the site is about and also determine what content will appear in search results. Creating proper meta tags for search engines, makes your site search engine friendly
* Optimized URLs
o The keywords found in the URL of a page are recognized by search engines. By automatically place keywords in the URL of every blog post increases its recognition.
* Optimized XML Sitemap
o A sitemap helps search engines properly spider and index your site. This makes it easier for content, new and old to be found on your site. Each time your sitemap is update, it notifies the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Yahoo.
* Less Blog Posts per Page
o By having less blog posts per page creates more pages of content for your site. This is extremely effective from, not only a SEO standpoint, but as a monetization strategy as well.
Increase Blog Traffic Tweaks
* Extensive list of over 60 ping sites.
o This will notify over 60 different ping servers every time you post new content… This is the cornerstone of Jeff’s “blog and ping” SEO strategy and is an extremely powerful way to grab the search engine’s attention very quickly.
* Sociable Plugin
o The Sociable plugin puts convenient buttons on each post which allows your readers to share the content of your site with popular social new sites such as Digg, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. Just one article on Digg’s homepage can increase your traffic tenfold!
Security Tweaks
* Comment Moderation
o This will automatically require administrative approval of all comments posted to the blog. Protect your blog from comment spam.
* Akismet
o Akismet protects your blog from trackback and comment spam.
* Longer Administrator Password
o Creating a longer administrator password makes it exponentially more difficult for a hacker to crack your blog.
If anyone is using this, or would be willing to download and perform a temporary install to see exactly what is in it, I would appreciate any feed-back.
Thanks,
Tod
