Scribe SEO | Simple, Fast, Friendly

I’ve been using Scribe SEO for WordPress for the past 3 weeks. Scribe is a plug-in that will help you write blog posts that are more Search Engine Optimization (SEO) friendly. I started blogging to write about my adventures in personal finance and debt repayment. As things progressed, I realized that I was actually starting to provide help and inspiration for people (quite shocking to me). I’ve made the decision to continue blogging for as long as I can. One way to get more people to read a blog is to apply SEO techniques to get more visitors from the search engines. If people can’t find you, they can’t read you.

I do make much time to read SEO books, but I do read a ton of blogs. I came across a few blogs talking about Scribe, I read the reviews and decided to take the plunge. Scribe is a program that claims to help you talior posts to meet common SEO guidelines. Meaning that once a post is written, Scribe will analyze it and provide suggestions to implement SEO into the post. If you choose to follow the suggestions, the post will have a much better chance of bring more traffic to the site. The suggestions are usually extremely easy to implement and once you use the program a few times, you will learn SEO by performing the changes. Think of it as OJT (On-the Job Training), many people learn much quicker by doing the work instead of reading about doing the work.

I’ve used Scribe on 10 posts and 8 pages so far. I estimate that each post that required changes took less than 5 minutes per post. Following the suggestions on my pre-Scribe posts has brought in some great traffic. That’s traffic on older posts, not just new ones. Are you ready to take a test drive of Scribe yet?? Ok, let’s go.

When Scribe analyzes a post, the program will return a new window containing 6 tabs. The tabs are; SEO Score, Keyword Analysis, Change Keywords, Tags, SERP, and SEO Best Practices. In the example below I’ve used a previous post titled How to Adjust Tax Withholdings.

Scribe In The Editor

Scribe Analysis

After running the analysis on this post, it scored 66%. Not too bad considering I knew NOTHING about SEO.

SEO Score Tab

The SEO Score tab breaks down each category of SEO into actionable sections for you to review and update. My score for this post was 66%. Here are the two reasons for the low score.

1) The Title does not contain any Primary Keywords at the Beginning
The original title was “How To Adjust Tax Withholdings”. After reading the suggestions I decided to change the title to “Tax Withholding | How To Adjust Tax Withholdings”. This made the plug-in very happy since my primary keyword is Withholding. The snap shot below shows the fields for the All-One-SEO-plug-in I use for the title, description, and tags.

2) Contains 0 hyperlinks towards the beginning, below the recommendation of 1 link at the beginning
I didn’t have any hyperlinks until the second paragraph in the original post. I’ve since added a link to the definition of “Tax Withholding” to provide extra information for someone who doesn’t quite know what a withholding is. Like the change in the title, adding the hyperlink helped the SEO score.

Keyword Analysis

Scribe will provide you with the current primary keyword(s) after the analysis is completed. This screen will show you which keywords the program has picked and the number of times they are used in the post. Other keywords are also shown if you decide you want to change them. The next section will cover the changing of your keywords.

Change Keywords

If you don’t like the current primary keywords that Scribe has picked for you, this screen will give you other suggestions. After each suggestion, Scribe informs you how to position the new keywords in the post so search engines and Scribe will recognize them as the primary keywords of the post.

Tags

Tags are part of the post that most people have a hard time with. They are related words in the post that can help to cast a wider net in the search engines to bring in more fish (visitors). Scribe will offer many tags that you can choose to include in the post tagging section. Most experts believe up to 10 tags will work best, scribe offers you about 20 different ideas.

SERP

Scribe will also show you how the search engines will display your post information. If you don’t like the look of the result you can adjust the title and describtion to get the look you need.

The Results

After using the suggestions from the Scribe Plug-in, my score became 100%. Pretty cool, I like being smart 🙂 Scribe is not a cheap option for most people. I use my allowance to pay for the plug-in. The price is $27 for the Starter version, $47 for the Publisher version, and $97 for the Advanced version. These prices are per month, which can really add up for PF bloggers like myself. I was able to get my subscription to the Advanced version for $27 per month. Scribe was running a special and I got in on the last day. Each version offers a different number of evaluations; the starter is 30, the publisher is 120, and the advanced is 300. To give you a feel, I’ve been using it for 3 weeks and I’ve used 30 evaluations so far. Scribe also offers a “one-click” unsubscribe feature you can use to cancel at anytime. If you use the plug-in enough, you will learn how to write for SEO very quickly. Once you learn it I believe you’ll be as good as the plug-in, allowing you to cancel the subscription. Just my thoughts, but I’ve learned a ton of SEO already and I believe the investment is a good one. I’m not good enough to to get 100% on all of my post yet. This post only scored 87% because I’ve used the term SEO and Scribe too many times :-). It ok though, I’m learning all the time and my two of my post last week scored 100% on the first try. I recommend the plug-in to anyone who blogs. Notice there are NO affiliate links in this post so no money is involved in this review. I use the program, and love the program.

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