Blogging for Good in the Modern World: blog improvement

14 August 2008

Spice your Blog with relevant content with Zemanta Plug-in

In the strong competition among bloggers for the reader’s attention, you can spice your blog and make it more fun to read, adding the most relevant and fresh information with free plug-in, offered by Zemanta (http://www.zemanta.com/). Currently available only in Firefox and Internet Explorer, Zemanta’s adds-on provides bloggers with appropriate links to their articles by suggesting related content through words and images on the side.

One of the great things about Zemanta is that it actually scans the web for Creative Commons content, so bloggers will be able to post useful images without the fear of being sued by an angry author.

As stated by the developers, Zemanta can add

Fun: it is fun to see your words paired with great links and pictures.
Content: Pictures, Links, Articles and Tags
Convenience: no more trolling the web for content for your posts.
Traffic: links to recent blog posts frequently result in return traffic.

The software is currently available for Blogger, Typepad, WordPress.com, and self-hosted WordPress blogs (2.0 and up).

Download free plug-in directly: for Internet Explorer browser.
Plug-ins for Firefox and other platforms can be downloaded from the developers Website.

12 April 2008

WordPress Blog Optimization with All-in-One SEO Pack Plugin

One of the most popular WordPress plugin will assist the blog owner to achieve high levels of Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This plugin is streamlined for the best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options ready for tweaking, blogging specialists recommend for starter using the default settings.

Among the plugin features:

Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
Generates META tags automatically
Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
For Wordpress 2.3 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
You can fine-tune everything
Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

Get more information and download:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/

A nice video presentation for the plugin: