Sickles Insight

I thought this was a fitting time to share with you a small change you can make on your own blog to increase readership and your blogs availability to people and search engines. Following my recent break, I’ve personally experienced this plug-in do wonders for the this blog’s traffic. First, a note up front: I often recommend products and webpages through this blog of my own free will. This is not a paid advertisement. I don’t even know the guy who wrote the plug-in.

Anyone keeping their own blog already knows the importance of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and the never-ending battle of flagging down quality traffic. With that said, I will assume you have already taken some of these measures, some of which are inherent to wordpress, others that need to be configured outside of the package. If you have questions on these things, we can talk about them outside of this post or in the comments below.

For the time being, I wanted to introduce you to the All In One SEO Pack - the out of the box SEO you didn’t know you needed. All In One SEO Pack plug-in for wordpress is a seemingly small and harmless, another wanna-be tool for wordpress bloggers, but in reality - I don’t know why I didn’t install this plug-in months ago! (maybe because it didn’t exist) SEOPACK has very little you need to configure once it is in place, but its effects are absolutely outstanding. Here’s one of it’s best features - If you’ve ever wanted to provide better descriptions and keywords in your meta data for each article with ease, this is the way to do it. I’ve used a few other tools to attempt the same - but even then, they only provided keywords. This can override or work in harmony with those tools to provide the best headers for your page.

I wouldn’t believe it myself, but here’s why I do. This comes at a perfect time for me to install. As many of you know, or now know (I’m Never Coming Back) - I have not written since late May. It is now mid July, and as anyone who keeps even one eye on their stats each week - you know that not writing on your blog will have detrimental effects on your viewership and visitor loyalty. Yup, I’m not immune - I lost near to half of my readers during this time. Two weeks ago I came across the All In One SEO Pack tool and I installed in on my blog. After configurations, I sat back and didn’t really do anything, and I continued not updating this blog. I know, it probably wasn’t the best decision, but I didn’t.

You wouldn’t believe it, but either people were missing me dearly and wanted to visit my blog so badly again, or the SEO plug-in provided my site with more accurate and more complete information to submit to search engines and therefore better traffic arrived at my site by way of some search engines. Either way, my blog has ramped itself back up to numbers where I originally left it in May. In fact, the blog is even beginning to surpass itself - and this is the first time I’ve written in a long time! I can’t wait to see what happens once I pick back up with regular contributions.

I’m not affiliated with All In One SEO Pack authors in any way, but I’m sure they’ll be happy to find another positive comment about their tool. This is not an affiliate link or anything of the sort, I just wanted to keep you well informed, and besides - I thought it was pretty cool! You can go download the tool here. Let me know how you like it!

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