Platinum SEO plugin – The ultimate wordpress SEO solution
Platinum SEO Plugin is the ultimate wordpress SEO solution.Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the features of All in One SEO plugin plus more. Uberdose, built the world’s most popular wordpress plugin “All in One SEO“. I too liked his plugin but was looking for more options in it.I developed Platinum SEO plugin for my own blogs.But now that Uberdose no longer supports All in One SEO, I decided to release this plugin to benefit wordpress community.I know that someone else has taken over the support and maintenance of All in One SEO.But I wanted Platinum SEO plugin to not only automate SEO for wordpress blogs, but also provide an ultimate onsite SEO (search engine optimization) solution for wordpress blogs.I find many wordpress users asking for explanations of the various options. I have already made a comprehensive explanation post on it.You will have to read this post on smart WordPress SEO options for smart benefits.
If you are already using All In One SEO Pack, this plugin will automatically import all the settings, that you have defined using All in one SEO plugin.You just need to verify the options, through Setting->Platinum SEO page of your wordpress blog.Platinum SEO Pack is also compatible with earlier versions of wordpress, though I recommend you to upgrade to the latest version of wordpress.
I would request other language users to help me make this plugin multilingual.It is not very difficult, to make this multilingual .
Check out some SEO optimized free themes here. More themes will be made available soon.
Features of Platinum SEO Plugin:
- Optimized Post and Page Titles for search engines
- Generates all SEO relevant META tags automatically
- Helps you avoid duplicate content
- Lets you override any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page
- Compatible with most other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.However you may have to disable All in One SEO pack
- You don’t have to fear changing permalinks. If you are not satisfied with the current permalink, change it through Settings–>Permalinks in your admin panel, without worrying about loss of Page rank or google penalty.Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect to the new location.This is a new essential feature, not present in All in one SEO
- Add meta description and meta keywords tags to WordPress Categories and WordPress Tag pages. Check, how to do it here
- Add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, noydir meta tags to any post/page.These options are not available in All in one SEO Pack.Find out why this option to set post/page level HTML meta robots tag useful?
- Options to noindex cateogory pages, archives, tag pages, comment feeds, rss feeds, search result pages, sub pages of home or category or tag pages.These are not available in All in One SEO pack.
- Nofollow external links on front page (Home page, Category page, etc – This feature is also not available in All in One SEO pack
How to install Platinum SEO Plugin?
- 1. Unzip into your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. If you’re uploading it make sure to upload the top-level folder. Don’t just upload all the php files and put them in `/wp-content/plugins/`.
- 2. Deactivate All in One SEO, if you are using it.Don’t worry as all your settings in All in One SEO are automatically imported into Platinum SEO
- 3. Activate the Platinum SEO plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- 4. Visit your SEO options (*Options – Platinum SEO*) for WordPress 2.3.x, (*Settings – Platinum SEO*) for WordPress 2.5.x
That’s all folks!
Download:
Download Platinum SEO Plugin from wordpress repository, install and let me know your feedback.
Also try out my other plugins:
- Chennai Central Plugin – Chennai Central plugin saves bandwidth on your wordpress site/blog.It can be very useful plugin going forward, with a few more cool features on it.
- Broken links Remover Plugin – Broken links are not good for SEO. Broken links Remover plugin lets you easily remove/hide broken links on your wordpress blogs/site.
Donation:
If you love this plugin, I would request each one of you to donate towards support expenses. This would also motivate me to enhance this further and make other good plugins for the wordpress community.A part of this amount will also be used towards education expenses for the deprived children in third world countries.If you do love to contribute more towards this noble cause, contact me through Contact page. I will send you the details and how this money is intended to be spent.
Donators:
- Gene Steinberg from macnightowl.com – Thank you Gene
- Making the Impossible – Rockoids.com
- Calorie Lab, Inc.
- Ciocan Gabriel
- Tod Dale – Integrity Wealth Group
Update (2 April 2010): The above list of people were the earliest donators.There were a few more kind hearted ones who did donate some money, but not listed.Thanks to all those kind hearted donators.
The amount collected from donations – 430 dollars in two years time.I had promised to give away 50% of the donations but the amount being paltry, I added 570 dollars and donated 1000 dollars to the twestival held, on March 25 2010, in cities worldwide.
A few people helped indirectly, by linking to this blog and this Platinum SEO page.Thanks to all those kind hearted people as well.
If you feel that you could donate, you are welcome and if you feel that you could help by linking back, you are welcome to link back to this blog or any “How To” article or free software that you liked, on this blog. check out the archives of this blog to find out the post that you like and link back or write a review and link back.
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Update: Version 1.2.3 of wordpress Platinum SEO plugin has been introduced. Now you can prevent comments paging duplicates in wordpress 2.7. (Update: This option is no longer needed as SERPS now support canonical URLs and the plugin lets you have turn on canonical URLs.)
Update: Version 1.2.4 of wordpress Platinum SEO plugin provides support for canonical URLs.. Now you can automatically generate Canonical URLs using Platinum SEO in wordpress.
Update: Version 1.2.5 Corrected a minor characterset problem for an european language (Bulgarian) and Version 1.2.6 Corrected a minor problem with canonical links for single pages.
Update: Version 1.2.7 of wordpress Platinum SEO plugin provides support for adding meta description and meta keywords tags to WordPress Categories and WordPress Tag pages. Check, how to do it here.
Update: Version 1.2.8 of Platinum SEO plugin has been released and it is almost the same as version 1.2.7, in terms of features.It only fixes a few typo errors that caused superficial PHP bugs.
Update: Version 1.2.9 of the plugin has been released. WordPress Page title or Post title rewrites can now be tuned on/off for any post or page.
Update: Version 1.3 of the plugin has been released. WordPress Page title format or Post title format can be disabled at an individual post or page level.
A seperate form has been added to facilitate hassle free migration from All in one seo to Platinum SEO plugin.
Update: Version 1.3.3 of Platinum SEO plugin is now compatible with Brian Clarke’s Scribe LLC plugin – an SEO copywriting plugin. Brian clarke is a copywriting expert and the founder of the popular copyblogger.com. He is a successful online entrepreneur and one of the world’s leading online marketer. Get his Scribe SEO LLC and find out
I don’t get it correct… Does it support UTF-8 languages? Like Greek? Or not…
I have encountered a bug. I posted it on the WordPress forum for your plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/platinum-seo-pack/
@Steven Vachon thanks…fixed it and released 1.2.8. Though superficial, it is still a bug…
@Rajesh I posted a reply on the WordPress forum. It seems there’s still 1 error message remaining.
On another note, “Home Title”, “Home Description” and “Home Keywords” aren’t really the home page. I’m sure they rely on is_home() which is really just the “posts” page. On my site, I have the posts page assigned to a static page called “Blog”. How can I customize that page’s title so that it doesn’t contain %blog_title% ?
Thanks.
Platiunm Seo pack > all in seo i think. Thanks for plugin.
@Vachon Can you tell me where you get the error message? I didn’t understand your second question…
@Rajesh in admin, go to Settings->Reading. In there I have the “Front Page” set to a static page, instead of to the default (which is “-Select-” I think.. but either way, it points to the posts (or blog listings) page).
In Platinum SEO, if I give “Home Title” a value, it is set on the blog listings page instead of the index page for the entire site. I’m looking for a way to add such an override title to the index page.
As for the error– it appears on every page. It says it occurs on line 353 of platinum_seo_pack.php
Thanks
@Vachon I will correct that error in line 353.
Regarding setting up of a static page as a front page, I have deliberately avoided giving such static front page the “Home title” you set in Platinum SEO settings. Why do you want to set an overriding title to that static page via the Platinum SEO settings? You can very well give the static page, the title you want.
The reason why I didn’t override the title for that static page( index page) with the Home title is because it is a special option in wordpress and when you choose that option I assume that you want to retain everything in that special page (static front page) including title, description and keywords. I don’t want to give an overriding title to it.
@Rajesh The page in which is_front_page() returns true is my website’s landing page. I’d like for its title to NOT be a subtitle, with my blog’s title in it, e.g.: “Landing Page • Steven’s Blog”. I’d like for it to just be “Landing Page”, that way I can add more keywords and not worry about redundancies.
If I understand you right, you want to display page titles as “Landing Page • Steven’s Blog” except for the page that you have chosen to be a static front page? Instead, why don’t you set your Platinum SEO plugin “Page title” option to just the page title, without appending the blog name? This will let you add more keywords to all your page titles instead of just the static front page.
If I assign home title to the static front page as you desire, then what title can be assigned to the posts page or the blog listing page as you term it? I thought it is better to assign the Home title page to blog listing page (posts page) and the static front page’s title can be controlled by you easily.