The ability to automatically do on-page SEO for blogs is an important, time-saving exercise and two of the most popular plugins for this are All-In-One SEO and Platinum SEO. Many Wordpress blog owners have wondered about the differences and whether they have made the right choice. Here is one user’s view and his comparisons. Add your own experience in the comments section.

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Platinum SEO Vs All in One SEO For WordPress Websites

By Delwin Holeman

WordPress has a number of plugins for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There are two main plugins that most sites use which I’ll discuss in this article. Read on and you’ll come away with a better understanding of which one might be best for bringing more traffic to your dental office website.

Platinum SEO and All in One SEO Pack are the leaders in the SEO Plugin category for WordPress. All in One SEO has been around longer and in fact Platinum SEO was built to function practically the same as All in One SEO. They are almost identical, but Platinum SEO made some important improvements.

So why choose one over the other? Personally I’ve chosen to use Platinum SEO for the following reasons:

1. Platinum SEO feature a setting to ” Automatically do 301 redirects for permalink changes”. This means that if you change the Permalink of one of your web pages, it will put some code in a special “.htaccess” file that tells Google, other search engines, and any backlink traffic, that the old page URL should now go to the new one.
2. Perhaps my biggest reason for going with Platinum SEO is that it allows me to give a single page a “noindex” setting to keep search engines away from a page I don’t want listed. ALl in One SEO does not have that feature.
3. It has a number of other “on-page” settings and options that All in One lacks, which gives you more control for each and every page you create. You can leave the basic settings in place so you are not having to set up each page one by one, but if you want to tweak something it’s all right there on your page editing screen.
4. Okay, this one is a bit nit picky, but it did figure in to my decision to switch. All in One SEO is riddled with advertisements and requests for donations. Nothing wrong with that and almost all plugins do it, but All in One is a bit over board with it.

If you’re already using All in One SEO, Platinum SEO has the ability to migrate all of your current settings into it’s own setup, so you can do a quick and easy migration of your page title tags, page descriptions and keywords.

So in closing, the main reason I made the switch was for the ability to set a single page as “nofollow” to keep search engines from indexing it. Aside from that they are both about the same, and appear to do equally good jobs at SEO.

I design and build custom WordPress websites for medical and dental practices at my company, ID Web and Print.

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If you want quick site indexing, there is no better choice then a blog-type website.

But as always, there is room for improvement. So how can we build a more search engine efficient blog? Here are the basic points you must cover:

1. Search Engine friendly Site Structure

Optimizing your blog must start with permitting visitors and search engine spiders alike quick access to content pages.

This is done by eliminating unnecessary clicks between the homepage and individual content web pages.

Once visitors are on site, reading the content, retain their attention as long as possible by sprinkling links to related posts in the text body and, of course, having the “related posts” feature appearing at the end of each post.

Making your blog look and feel more like a spider web with all sections interconnected helps improve site’s overall buoyancy in the SERPs and not only for individual content pages that happens to be better optimized.

Categorize your website with keywords best reflecting your niche market. Over time as you reinforce your SERPs position you’ll start ranking for such keywords, making your blog a dependable go-to resource for informational content, reviews and buying.

Keep in mind though, not to crisscross tagging names with category names, respectively if you have a category named “SEO for blogs” don’t tag content with the same depiction.

2. Link Out to Related Blogs and Build Backlinks

A proven way of increasing authority and trust with the SEs is not to be cheap with linking out to relevant content to yours. Let’s face it; you can’t possibly know or cover it all.

Google disregards websites with clear indicators of PageRank sculpting such as having only inbound links with no referencing to other theme related websites/subjects.

Dofollow linking should be used when referencing related content. Nofollow tags are getting more and more overlooked, at least by Yahoo and MSN. The reason lies in their failure to effectively fight spam -their very own reason of being, in the first place.

As far as your own back links, these can be created with consistent blog commenting, guest posting on representative blogs in your industry and blog directories submission.

Addressing this last issue, keep in mind that for the top directories a first submission will most probably not result in an inclusion, especially if your blog is newly launched (< 1 year).

Just insist with future submission requests because the lower the acceptance rate the more valuable such a back link is.

3. Stay Away From Duplicate Content

Thanks to a wide range of SEO plugins, onsite duplicate content has stopped being a problem for blogging platforms. In addition to this, Google has improved its technique of dealing with blogs by recognizing blog areas where duplicate content might appear.

Off site duplicate content is a real problem but not so much from an SEO as from a content marketing standpoint. The culprits here are content scrapers that literally steal your content and embed it on their own cheap sites.

Although you can’t avoid, you can use the practice in your advantage by embedding absolute links into the text body for them to be active even when published on different domains.

4. Generate XML Sitemaps

An XML sitemap is a list of URLs for all of your indexed pages and tag names that basically tells Google when your blog receives new content. This is a great asset compared to static websites where you have to wait in line until SEs visit it.

The second part of this article on search engine optimizing a blog is published on the SEO section of my educational blog, TrafficCpanel.com.

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How Important Are Long Tail Keywords?

The interest in SEO is sparked from the desire to barge in to the first page of search results. If a site is not featured in the first page then it means that it is not featured at all. It has been proved that the interest of the user is sustained only for the first page of search results.

With thousands of web pages vying for the first page, for the same keyword, it becomes a difficult task for the search engines to rank the pages. So the search engines follow various algorithms like inbound links, popularity and other factors to rank the sites, which is a bit complex to comprehend.

But the core of search engine optimization, the use of appropriate keywords, remains unchanged and will be the same in the future years as well. Of course, we need to consider the semantic indexing followed in recent times to comply with the search engines’ ranking criteria.

As the competition increases day by day, those keywords with less competition offer some hope for the seo specialists who desperately wish to override the powerful opponents. Long tail keywords are the perfect solution as it offers several benefits.

For instance, a search on “books” returns Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and eBay in the first page as its top results. If one owns a bookstore in Park Avenue then the hopes of getting to the first page are almost nil. But, if keyword-based SEO is done on “buy Park Avenue books”, then a spot in the first page is almost assured with little effort on the other SEO areas.

Users with serious needs search with specific keywords, in other words, long tail keywords. So, when they go to a site listed in the search results, it will mostly be for serious information and not just casual browsing. Hence, what requires years of web domain dominance is achieved in a very short duration with strategic planning of long tail keywords.

The only point to be remembered is that one needs to find the long tail keywords that are searched by the users. But with plenty of keyword tools available in the market, it is an easy task for the SEO expert to find out the right keywords that promotes the business.

A carefully planned long tail keywords strategy will not only feature on the first page of search results, but also add value to the site in terms of the users it attracts, which will in turn boost the credentials of the site and translates it to money per click.

There are several tools out there to help in figuring out the keywords. It is worth exploring Google AdWords or wordtracker in this respect. In addition to that, it pays to do a little more research and find out the possible phrases from the user point of view. The focus should be on “key phrases” instead of “keywords”. It will be a pleasant surprise to see a whole new array of effective long tail keywords emerge.

Anil Gupta writes about SEO tips,  blog tips and how to make money online with blog websites on his scopeformoney.com blog