Well we do have a lot of wordpress installs (not only for blogging, wordpress has come a long way and its almost at the point of becoming a full fledged cms like drupal or joomla), so having a good SEO pack to take care of the little tidbits of SEO is almost mandatory, so using the 2nd most popular wordpress plugin "All in One SEO Pack", seems like a no-brainer, that is... it used to be, now more than ever its a nuisance, and moved from a very simple helpful plugin to a major bloated beast filled with plenty of idiotic choices, and i'll gladly name a few:
1. Constant Updates, ohhh i'm all for updates, but come on, put it all in a bigger update, instead of pushing the equivalent of nightly builds, unless its a security risk (that i have my doubts, with this kind of plugin), it should be pushed with big updates, i guess they do this because of my second gripe...
2. When Updating they Deactivate the Script, yep, you activate on the plugins page, but you have to always go to the plugin itself to activate, thats just moronic and abusive, pushing ads/promotion/donations, jeez
3. Bloated or Useless Functions, stuff like pushing added keywords on single posts/pages, its not only pretty much useless these days, but its kinda promoting keyword stuffing, using excerpts as descriptions, talk about added bloat...
4. Adding Idiotic Stuff, to the code in the head like...
<-- All in One SEO Pack 1.6.7 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design -->
e in the head like... not only is it bloat to the code, but it also announces the freaking version, so if there is a security problem... yayyy
So as of now we are moving all of our wordpress installs from using the "All in One SEO Pack" to HeadSpace 2 and Platinum SEO Pack ^_^.oO( to see who performs better)
4 comments:
How about considering alternative to WordPress altogether? I think we have a way better solution than WP when used as a corporate CMS where SEO is vital to the project success.
Please check http://www.seotoaster.com out, it is the most advanced SEO CMS out of the box; including automated deep-linking, automated media tagging, link sculpting using JavaScript and even point and click link siloing. You can also remote control an unlimited number of websites with an optional subscription to SEO Samba.
seotoaster is free and open source. There's an online demo.
I'd love to hear what you think about it.
Thanks.
Michel.
cause its a different subject altogether? one thing is SEO, but its just one of the parts that are important in a site and not the most relevant ones (content/design/functions/hosting being some of them), so yours being good straight from the box doesn't mean its a better software, especially cause I've never heard of you guys, you seem to have started just now, well since your domain is from this year, i guess you probably did... hehehe and i know pretty much every cms that is out there...
and wordpress is a pretty solid piece of software and i know its not a full fledged cms, but for my uses with it, it works pretty good, its not perfect and the plugins are not perfect, but it has a huge community behind it and its getting better and better.
How are you finding your comparison going between the two SEO programs?
well its difficult to pinpoint at this moment, 3 sites i've changed are still going good (changed away from All in One SEO), didn't drop on their google ratings (well it would be weird if they did, it displays the same metatags as usual)
i just didn't switch all my wordpress sites over, cause some of the nagging issues i had with the "All in One SEO" plugin were solved, enough that copying the metatags and such is bothersome as well as the 2 choices i gave are also bloated (and or add complexity) in their own ways, so i know i called this post "alternatives", but i guess im also still looking ^_^'
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