[wp-hackers] Best SEO plugin?

[Ardee Aram]

Hello guys,

I don't have plenty to say, but I have to agree with Chip. You got my
opinion right on, and more fluently.

Regards,

Ardee Aram

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> I think you're missing entirely both the point and philosophy of WordPress,
> and also the goals and objectives of the core developers. You're never going
> to find WordPress core playing SEO games like this, and nobody wants them to
> waste their time and energy on such things.
>
> Simply, the core philosophy of WordPress (as I understand it) is to provide
> the easiest solution for self-publishing. To that end, preventing the
> distraction of spam is far more important than squeezing out a few more
> drops of Google juice. And ironically, what all of the never-ending SEO
> games fail to realize is that, by far, the most important SEO tactic
> is to *write
> quality content*.
>
> Personally, I couldn't care less about my "Page Rank". My motivations for
> writing blog posts are varied, but gaining PR isn't one of them.
> Nevertheless, Google has managed to find - and to rank highly - some things
> that I have written; rankings that are based solely on the degree of
> usefulness that others have gained from those posts. For example: how to
> synchronize a BlackBerry in
> Linux<http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,18167,24472,26637,27147,27154,27404&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=how+to+synchronize+a+blackberry+in+linux&cp=40&qe=aG93IHRvIHN5bmNocm9uaXplIGEgYmxhY2tiZXJyeSBpbiBsaW51eA&qesig=_9bo8k66gKlZQC63sFs_5A&pkc=AFgZ2tlZ3aZv2I0R3fTJ0DPyPbCzc40o9x69n3BXM5SI37PTzrRJS5MaVv0LnSRgtJat8vnxrtnmM2MsT-kJUZyjDISk9BcZAQ&pf=p&sclient=psy&safe=off&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=how+to+synchronize+a+blackberry+in+linux&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=fc8a743f8bb10773>.
> Or another one, written just a few weeks ago - something that I just cranked
> out in about an hour, after being inspired by another post that advised
> using non-WordPress core implementation for customizing default Gravatars in
> WordPress. So, I wrote a response post, quickly explaining the right way to
> implement custom default Gravatars. It's already worked its way up to Page
> #2 in Google<http://www.google.com/#q=wordpress+custom+default+gravatar&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=iv&ei=UnXXTNeGBIG78gbTgujFBg&start=10&sa=N&fp=fc8a743f8bb10773>-
> all without me caring one bit about my site's SEO fu.
>
> (And I'm not even a great, or influential, writer.)
>
> What I'm really trying to say is: WordPress is focused on helping people
> publish awesome content in the easiest (and perhaps most enjoyable) way
> possible. Trying to argue for these SEO "tricks" in core is really just a
> waste of your time, because it will never happen. Some people who are much
> smarter than I am are giving you great advice for how to use hooks to make
> WordPress work the way you want it to; I'd listen to them, and learn how to
> implement their suggestions in your own Theme(s).
>
> Chip
>
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Ardee Aram