Does All-in-One SEO Actually Help Blogs? #bdb09

Posted by on Jul 21, 2009 in Internet Marketing, Resources, Web & Technology | 4 comments

In my last Blog Design Bootcamp 2.0 class, the question was asked about how much SEO I do and which plug-ins would I recommend.  Now, I’ve never done a day of SEO in my life aside from just using WordPress tags and categories that make sense and writing on topic.  Seriously.  Never spent a dime.

Interestingly, my websites never seemed to suffer due to it.  Check out www.bsetc.ca on Alexa:

Now, since this blog is already established, I’m not going to try to work any Alexa magic on it with All-in-One SEO. In fact, I’m going to use this very blog you are on right now.  This blog is new — not even three weeks old (I just imported a lot of old posts to it from other blogs in an effort to consolidate my blogging) so here is the Alexa rating screenshot for THIS blog.

So, for the next month, I’m going to implement All-in-One SEO and see where my Alexa rating is in one month. Then, I’ll check it in three months.  Now, to be fair… I’m going to have a lot to do with my own Alexa rating through the use of tags, categories and frequency of posting here.  I know this and will take this into consideration.  I also have Google Analytics so I can see how people are coming to the blog and rule out some of my own traffic generation via social media and the like.

If you use this plug-in, what have your results been like?  Are you measuring or testing traffic?

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  • http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs Michael Aulia

    I think the plug-in only helps you out to do the optimization but it’s entirely up to you as you still need to do the “dirty” work :)

    I’m just like you, too lazy to do SEO work :(

  • http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs Michael Aulia

    I think the plug-in only helps you out to do the optimization but it’s entirely up to you as you still need to do the “dirty” work :)

    I’m just like you, too lazy to do SEO work :(

  • http://www.LifeStreaminColor.com/ Erin Blaskie

    I’m doing it as an experiment to see what it can do. I don’t do SEO as I don’t think it’s needed (not so much the lazy bit haha) when you are using WordPress. WordPress naturally does a lot of the search engine optimization for you and has definitely helped get my Alexa rating up immensely.

  • http://www.LifeStreaminColor.com Erin Blaskie

    I’m doing it as an experiment to see what it can do. I don’t do SEO as I don’t think it’s needed (not so much the lazy bit haha) when you are using WordPress. WordPress naturally does a lot of the search engine optimization for you and has definitely helped get my Alexa rating up immensely.

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