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.
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…
…as you can see I did pretty well myself but with a couple of minor adjustments I get…
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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Intense Debate versus Disqus, wow, what a quandary that turned out to be, obviously if you′ve noticed, I ended up deciding to implement Disqus, it wasn′t an easy decision. Until the clincher.
In case you don′t know Disqus and Intense Debate are comment management systems that integrate into a number of popular blog applications, including stand alone WordPress, the technology this site is built on.
I′ve never been that keen on the standard WordPress comment system. The latest revision combined with the Thesis theme I use, and recommend, is a significant improvement, but I was looking for something that had more on, and off site integration with Social Media applications, and the ability to aggregate my comments from other sites into a single location. Both Disqus and Intense Debate do this.
I′m not going to go into a detailed comparison of the two systems, do a search for Discus versus Intense Debate and you′ll find plenty of information. Alex Popescu′s post called Commenting Services face to face… is a good place to start. But, what I found was that, although I got a sense that Disqus was edging out in front of Intense Debate in terms of overall take up, I never read anything that gave me a clear winner. I was undecided.
So I went ahead and installed Intense Debate.
Twenty four hours later I′m using Disqus, and I′m happy with it.
Here′s the thing…Intense Debate would not allow me to edit comments, nor could I edit my replies after they were submitted. That, folks, was a show stopper for me.
Ok, so you can get around it with a bit of maneuvering backwards and forwards in WordPress but that defeats the purpose. On the Intense Debate blog they cite concerns about censorship in their rationale, I’m really not sure this holds up, after all we still get a delete button – if I want to censor something, I′ll delete it.
It′s not about censorship, healthy debate and opposing opinions make great conversation and a lively blog. It′s about editorial discretion and quality control. If I want to fix a typo, repair a broken link, remove content that might be subject to a company′s confidentiality from an otherwise good comment, or any other quality issue, I should be able to.
For a regular reader, or commenter – especially if you comment on a lot of blogs – I recommend that you get a Disqus profile. You can have one for a commenter, publisher, or both. It′s free and helps you keep track of your online activity. I hope you enjoy this feature on my site.
Intense Debate versus Disqus, the clincher…
by Damian Saunders on October 17, 2009 · View Comments
Intense Debate versus Disqus, wow, what a quandary that turned out to be, obviously if you′ve noticed, I ended up deciding to implement Disqus, it wasn′t an easy decision. Until the clincher.
In case you don′t know Disqus and Intense Debate are comment management systems that integrate into a number of popular blog applications, including stand alone WordPress, the technology this site is built on.
I′ve never been that keen on the standard WordPress comment system. The latest revision combined with the Thesis theme I use, and recommend, is a significant improvement, but I was looking for something that had more on, and off site integration with Social Media applications, and the ability to aggregate my comments from other sites into a single location. Both Disqus and Intense Debate do this.
I′m not going to go into a detailed comparison of the two systems, do a search for Discus versus Intense Debate and you′ll find plenty of information. Alex Popescu′s post called Commenting Services face to face… is a good place to start. But, what I found was that, although I got a sense that Disqus was edging out in front of Intense Debate in terms of overall take up, I never read anything that gave me a clear winner. I was undecided.
So I went ahead and installed Intense Debate.
Twenty four hours later I′m using Disqus, and I′m happy with it.
Here′s the thing…Intense Debate would not allow me to edit comments, nor could I edit my replies after they were submitted. That, folks, was a show stopper for me.
Ok, so you can get around it with a bit of maneuvering backwards and forwards in WordPress but that defeats the purpose. On the Intense Debate blog they cite concerns about censorship in their rationale, I’m really not sure this holds up, after all we still get a delete button – if I want to censor something, I′ll delete it.
It′s not about censorship, healthy debate and opposing opinions make great conversation and a lively blog. It′s about editorial discretion and quality control. If I want to fix a typo, repair a broken link, remove content that might be subject to a company′s confidentiality from an otherwise good comment, or any other quality issue, I should be able to.
For a regular reader, or commenter – especially if you comment on a lot of blogs – I recommend that you get a Disqus profile. You can have one for a commenter, publisher, or both. It′s free and helps you keep track of your online activity. I hope you enjoy this feature on my site.
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