Normally when I set up plugin-level SEO on a WordPress blog, I’ll need 5-8 plugins to provide all the desired SEO functionality. Wouldn’t it be cool if there was one plugin that incorporated all that functionality and more into one easy-to-use suite?
That’s the goal of SEO Ultimate, which is a free plugin I’m developing on behalf of SEO Design Solutions.
Right now the plugin is in its early stages (currently at version 0.6). There are many more features yet to come; as more functionality is added, I expect SEO Ultimate to become the all-in-one WordPress SEO solution of choice for more people as time goes on.
Features
Current functionality includes the standard All in One SEO Pack features:
- Title rewriting
- Noindex checkboxes
- Meta editing
- Canonical tags
- Post meta box
SEO Ultimate also has these additional capabilities:
- 404 monitoring
- Linkbox insertion
- Settings import/export functions
Upcoming features include robots.txt editing, 301 logging, XHTML validation status monitoring, and much more. (If you install the plugin now, you can get these features delivered to you on a regular basis via WordPress’s semi-automatic plugin updater!)
I’ve also incorporated these extra features into SEO Ultimate:
- Inline changelogs
- Readme changelog
- Footer branding
- WordPress 2.7 menu integration
- Integration with WordPress’s Help system
- Inline phpDoc documentation
Auto-Installer
Also, be sure to check out this cool auto-installer system I invented. Just type in your blog’s URL, click “Launch Installer,” then click “Install Now,” and voila, SEO Ultimate will be installed on your blog! You can then enable it by clicking the Activate link.
Try it out:
You can also download the zip file. SEO Ultimate requires WordPress 2.7 or above.
Let me know what you think!
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I’m currently using ‘All in One SEO Pack’
Can you tell me how your plugin is different?
Thanks for your hardwork. I always appreciate people that develop workpress plugins.
Hi benwaynet — I think a lot of people have that question, so I thank you very much for asking it. In four words, the answer is “more and better features.” The idea for SEO Ultimate is to bring the features of many SEO plugins into one suite, improve on those features in the process, and add brand-new features that no-one has made yet.
Right now, SEO Ultimate has 7 main features that All in One SEO Pack doesn’t have (404 monitoring, linkbox insertion, settings import/export, a settings reset function, inline changelogs, WordPress Help system integration, and an uninstaller). I’ll be adding approximately one new feature per week, so that number will grow as time goes on.
Also, thanks for taking the time to thank plugin authors
The auto installer from your blog is a great addition! Great work and really cool idea to include that auto installer!
John, I am using HeadSpace2 (http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/) as SEO-plugin as it is much better than All in One SEO Pack and others. What would you say why I should change that to your SEO Ultimate plugin?
If this thing is ready to go, I’d really like to give it a shot. Does it do anything with follow/nofollow links?
@seosapien: Thanks! I’m glad you like the autoinstaller.
@Wolfgang: SEO Ultimate and HeadSpace2 aren’t direct “competitors,” so I don’t think you could replace either one with the other. SEO Ultimate focuses on SEO, whereas HeadSpace2 focuses on everything related to metadata (some of which is SEO-related).
Since SEO Ultimate is an SEO plugin, it doesn’t include the non-SEO features of HeadSpace2 (like the ability to disable WordPress’s visual editor, or set PHP memory limits). You shouldn’t disable HeadSpace2 if you use these non-SEO features.
At the same time, SEO Ultimate has SEO features that HeadSpace2 doesn’t (and vice versa), and SEO Ultimate’s featureset will continue to grow via regular updates.
Therefore, I’d recommend running both plugins side-by-side. There shouldn’t be a problem, as long as you disable the overlapping functionality in either of the plugins (both SEO Ultimate and HeadSpace2 include module managers).
@Scott Thomason: Yes, SEO Ultimate is stable; it’s been out for 2 months with thousands of downloads, and there has only been one bug report so far (which was quickly resolved).
SEO Ultimate doesn’t have nofollow functionality yet, but that’s on the ideas list.
@John: Thanks for your reply. Is this you? http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/
I found an issue:
The Linkbox Inserter does not accept the more tag. The linkbox can be seen in Archives, Tag pages, at Search pages etc. below every article.
@Wolfgang: The URL you mentioned is the plugin’s homepage — I do the text (which is basically copied from the plugin’s readme file), and someone else does the images.
Thanks for reporting the Linkbox Inserter issue. You’re right, the linkbox shouldn’t appear if there’s a “more” tag. I’ll make the change in version 0.9.
john, i get this error when hitting uninstall “Fatal error: Call to a member function uninstall() on a non-object in /homepages/10/d264779539/htdocs/drgreen-thumb/g50/wp-content/plugins/seo-ultimate/functions.php on line 159″
@Zac: This error is fixed in version 1.5.2 and later.
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