WordPress SEO Secrets
January 7th, 2009
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Michael Martine has now launched his WordPress SEO Secrets. (If you heard me mention SEO-Nomicon before, this is the same product, just renamed.)
Yes, there are other SEO products out there. But one thing that makes this one unique right off the bat is that it’s specifically about WordPress SEO. Now if you happen to be blogging on a platform other than WordPress, you won’t care about that. But since WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform, it’s great to finally have something specifically designed for it.
I had a chance to get an early look at the ebook portion of the product, and I immediately thought it was possibly the best looking ebook I’ve ever seen. I know that’s kind of superficial, but once I looked past the cover and the fonts, I found that there was inner beauty too. 
What I mean by that is that it gives you all the details you need, in a way that’s easy to understand and implement. The information is very thorough. For example, it has possibly the world’s most complete list of WordPress SEO plugins and Firefox SEO extensions. At the same time, it’s written for people with beginner or intermediate-level SEO knowledge, so it’s not going to leave you scratching your head wondering how to actually put it into practice.
I’m actually not much of a fan of SEO because I find so many people talking about how to game the system, or focusing on keywords at the expense of content quality. But I agree with Michael’s idea that we should write for people, but tweak for search engines. Content comes first in my book, but content that people can find is even better!
You can get a sneak peak of the ebook right here. (If you’re reading this in your email or RSS reader, you’ll probably have to click through to the post.)
I haven’t heard the audios or watched the videos included in WordPress SEO Secrets. However, I’ve been on two of Michael’s teleseminars and two of his webcasts, and he doesn’t disappoint. I stayed on one of his webcasts for over two hours!
If you need more traffic to your site, you really want to check out WordPress SEO Secrets!
January 8th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
WordPress SEO is true to an extent… though if you are like me and use the Thesis theme, SEO is built-in so plugins are unnecessary. In fact, the only plugin that resembles anything to do with SEO is a sitemap.
Still, useful advice. Thanks for alerting us, Hunter.
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January 8th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
@Ari – I appreciate what you’re saying, because it speaks to Chris Pearson’s talent behind Thesis. I am currently redesigning Remarkablogger on Thesis, and as you can imagine, I’m learning everything about it I can.
Thesis does indeed come with many out-of-the-box SEO options… probably more than any other theme ever made. But it’s not enough.
Question: does that mean everyone who uses Thesis knows how these should be set? I’m afraid that unless they already know SEO, they do not. There must be understanding for the use of these settings to provide any actual SEO benefits.
Although Thesis does a lot, it does not do everything required for the best optimization possible for WordPress blogs.
Part of what people can get if they have WordPress SEO Secrets is the WordPress SEO Secrets Monthly Newsletter, which is the continuing education aspect of WordPress SEO. SEO and search tools are constantly changing. Planned for an upcoming issue of the newsletter will be an article about SEO specifically in Thesis.
Doing SEO tweaks in Thesis is actually more difficult than using some of these plugins, unfortunately. I wish it weren’t true, because I love Thesis, but that’s been my experience. I have no doubt Chris will make this easier down the road.
Whether a blogger has Thesis or an array of SEO plugins, it doesn’t matter. What matters is knowing what to do and why, and WordPress SEO Secrets provides one super-convenient multimedia course on that.
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Does Michael know his stuff or what?
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