Scribe SEO Plugin – taking the pain out of SEO copywriting

by Damian Saunders on February 26, 2010 · View Comments

The Scribe SEO WordPress plugin appealed to me immediately. Let’s face it, optimizing copy for SEO has to be about as exciting as an episode of the Kardashian’s – painful, and excruciatingly boring.

I have a reasonably good handle on SEO copywriting, but, with a business hell bent on world domination, a 20 month old son, and great surf beaches just down the road from my house, and home office, when I finally do get some time to write the last thing I want to do is spend hours on SEO copywriting.

The Scribe SEO plugin turns the job into a five minute, easy, task. Seriously!

It took me while to find and settle on the Thesis WordPress theme. Finally I had something stable, easily customized, that didn’t break every time there was an update, and that’s set up well for SEO optimization, at least as a platform.

The missing link, of course, is the SEO optimization of the content itself. That’s where the Scribe SEO WordPress plugin becomes a perfect companion to Thesis

How does it work?

Easy. First I write my post, with a general idea of keywords and subject matter but really quite freely and without regard to SEO.

Scribe SEO Plugin for WordPress

Then, I make sure the Scribe Content Optimizer gives my Title Tag, Meta Description, and Content the green light, meaning simply that they’ve been done, then I click the analyze button.

The Scribe plugin then gives a report that looks something like…

Scribe_Analysed_SEO_Content

…as you can see I did pretty well myself but with a couple of minor adjustments I get…

Scribe Analysed SEO Content report

The Scribe SEO WordPress plugin also provides me with a set of tags I can simply cut and paste into my post and I’m done. All of this SEO Copywriting has taken me approximately ten minutes. How good is that?

If you’re like me and you know that SEO copywriting is something that has to be done, but you don’t want to spend half your life doing it, then the Scribe SEO WordPress plugin is something you should seriously consider. I’m glad I did.

UPDATE: I Googled the phrase “scribe SEO plugin” (without the quotations) at 9:30am the morning after I published the article (less than 12 hours) and found my post on the 1st page. I’m searching from Australia, if that makes a difference.

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  • http://www.jumpstartguy.com/ Patrick K. O'Brien

    Nice review. I've never watched the Kardashian’s, but I get your point. Just thought I'd point out that the link to your business doesn't quite work. Perhaps a typo in the domain name?

  • http://damiansaunders.net Damian Saunders

    Thanks Patrick, yep, a typo in the link, all fixed now. Cheers

  • http://www.onlinebusinessblackbook.com/ Cemil

    Nice review Damian – also good to see the switch you made to the Thesis Theme.

    While the Plugin seems to be well built and looking at where you are ranking with the scribe SEO plugin phrase, I'd say it would be a great tool to have. The only issue I see is that the fee structure in place does not appeal to me as I am still pretty new to the online marketing world and the monthly cost is just to far outside of the budget – as would probably be to many new and intermediate bloggers.

  • http://damiansaunders.net Damian Saunders

    I had reservations about the fee too, but my experience is that you get what your pay for, I had the same reservations about paying for Thesis when there were so many free themes available. Thing is that Thesis is rock solid and doesn't break every time WordPress is updated.
    But, you're right, when you're starting out you do have to watch your budget, I have a tendency to try things and am fortunate enough to be able to afford it – now. If I was starting out again I'd be focusing all my energy into understanding the arbitrage between buying traffic – and yes you need to do that – and my sales revenue. Get that right and you have a sustainable business model.

  • http://www.famousbloggers.net/ Hesham @ FamousBloggers

    Nice review, I am using scribe on my blog as well, I thought to use it because I was starting a guest blogging contest, and I knew that I will have to do lots of SEO work, I actually like it because it makes SEO more easy and remind you when you forgot something!

    I came across your blog through twitter!

    by the way, I think you need to add some Tweetmeme or Topsy on your posts, it will make it easy for your blog visitors to RT your posts!

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