We are currently offering several WordPress plugins; two are free, another one is in beta (also free), and two more are paid “white label’ plugins for developers and SEO firms.
We developed the SEO Automatic plugins to solve our problems, and so we could automate tasks that we were already doing manually, allowing us to focus on marketing sites, instead of doing repetitive tasks.
SEO Automatic WordPress Setup
With over 7000 downloads from the WordPress repository, this plugin has saved countless man-hours for developers. It’s based on the actual checklist we used to do manually for each and every WP install at Search Commander, Inc. and I guarantee it will save you 20 minutes minimum with EVERY free use no matter how fast you think you are at a WP setup. This is one badass plugin, so check it out!
(As of Feb 2010 there’s now a brandable WordPress setup plugin available too.)
When this is used together with the All-In-One SEO plugin and the Google XML Sitemap plugin (or their equivalent manual labor) your WordPress will be virtually unstoppable in the search engines, and 99% of your “on page” SEO will be set to “Automatic” – just the way you used to have to do it the old days.
SEO Automatic Affiliate Store Creator
Affiliate marketers can build websites all day long, but setting up individual pages from a data feed is tedious and time consuming. This plugin enables the user to add individual WordPress pages that are already SEO friendly, from almost any halfway decently formatted merchant datafeed.
Here’s what’s still “wrong” with it, and why it’s not at the WordPress repository. The SEF urls arent working, and it doesn’t make a sitemap.xml file. For me, those are minor compared to the other thing “wrong”, that you can’t specify new data fields upon import. If a manufacturer does a good enough job on their datafeed, giving us product fields for alternative prices, descriptions etc. then we should be able to see them in the WP admin.
On the other hand, It’s almost too easy, really, to build a site, assuming you have a decent datafeed, so check it out! .
SEO Automatic URL Reviews
Are you a marketing firm that needs to run branded SEO reviews on the fly, right from your own Wordpress inatallation? This is a full featured white label version of the SEO Automatic tool so you can brand YOUR COMPANY as the experts, and it’s now a paid WordPress plugin.
From the ranking factor definitions, to pass / fail thresholds, to the specific information you give about how to fix the problems, nothing like this has ever been available before, and it’s all done from inside your WordPress admin with no mention of Search Commander Inc. located anywhere.
What’s Next?
There is another plugin coming for adding a batch of content with future posting schedule. We’re not pushing it hard, because with a combination of tools it’s already possible, but we hope to get it done before it moves to dead projects. If you know of anyone that has one already, please tell me and we can stop wasting time!
There is at least one other expected in 2010, and a couple of more ideas too that I can’t mention yet, and each will automate tasks that are already being done manually, and we think you’ll be impressed…
What’s Dead?
SEO Automatic No Followizer
Until June of 2009 the Google’s “rule” was that that nofollowed links gave more juice to the followed links. This was knows as “PR scuplting” and a variety of other names, and it was accepted as “true”, although somewhat controversial. However, in 2007, Matt Cutts told me (Scott Hendison) personally that link sculpting was “one of the few advanced SEO strategies left” and that it was “perfectly okay and white hat”.
We’d been doing some link sculpting for quite a while already, and always assumed it was “okay” but after Google put their stamp of approval on it, we poured it on even heavier until about late 2008 when we turned it into a WordPress plugin for our own use.
For SMX Advanced 2009, we were rolling it out for free. You could control the header, footer, both sidebars, comments and even body links after a page refresh, all from within the edit page of WordPress. Every link on the page was added with a checkbox to the admin, and you, “check all” to nofollow all of them. Then, you could UNcheck only the links you wanted, and let the the juice pour on as desired. -
Then Matt announced that it didn’t work any more, and hadn’t for some time, they just hadn’t gotten around to telling us. Furthermore, when asked “Then what happens to the extra Page Rank?” I believe his exact words (about 20 feet from me into a microphone) were “You can sort of think of it as, ‘evaporating’”. Ya, pretty great, huh? Oh well, it was fun while it lasted… ;)
SEO Automatic Backup Plugin
After 44 hours of programmer time developing a custom backup system, we discovered what appears to be the perfect automatic backup plugin released in Dec of 2009. It seems to do everything ours was doing, except store on your own server. That was actually part of the hang up for us – all the different security restrictions on servers for automated file delivery by Cron. By developing for Amazon Web Services, they seem to have solved the problem, and it looks like as of February 18, 2010 our plugin may R.I.P.
