Anybody using Dan Raine's WP Silo Plugin?

I was interested in trying it...til I saw the price. Too rich for my blood for a plug in. I am curious too though if anyone is using it, how do you like it?

$97 is a bit rich for many peoples blood, but I've been using Dan's Silo Plugin For a short time and I am already seeing an increase in traffic through SERPS. There is a script if you click off that will take the price down to $77.

Google Caffeine is changing the face of SEO and the silo structure is the best way to optimize your sites. Granted the price is quite high (and the launch price ends in 24 hours according to an email I got from Dan this morning) but how much does your time cost?

Seriously, this is an automated silo structure that reconfigures for you as you create new content, it's definitely worth the price.

Oh great keep us updated!

I believe the point of DR's plugin and another I have seen "Virtual Silo" (both paid for) is that they are supposed to help create a silo structure (for a WordPress Blog) and organise categories in a way that is Google friendly and so tightens the theme so helping the trawl bots to understand and rank it.

Here is where I get a little confused - they are also supposed to make any outbound links nofollow (I presume) so that the bot stays inside the blog traveling in one direction, post to post around the category and up to the next category and so on until it trawls each category and post and without getting lost or distracted on route.

I am looking for a plugin that can re jig the links in that way and I would rather not pay when there may already be a free WP plugin that can do that, any ideas please?

I will look at the plugins suggested above by the other members but I did briefly install the SEO Siloing plugin and as far as I could see it created pages of posts from the selected category (header only style) but didn't do anything about outbound post links or the desired follow route for the crawlbot. John :confused:

Raines Silo Plug-in

I have installed this plug-in on 2 blogs and it has worked as stated except for one issue. The code to over ride a no-follow tag does not work on one of my blogs... so now I will test the other one before I do more to see if this problem is universal. There is a bonus plug-n they give you which takes care of this failure in another way and it is my feeling this has been added because of this particular override issue with their coding.

Unfortunatley, they also have put all of their resource videos and information on the download page which times out, so the videos which didn't download as they should have and the ticket email address are now gone. Not to smart on their part putting everything on a timed page.

The plug-n does silo your pages within WP which is something I have not seen done by any other plug-in. I will be monitoring the effect on rankings over the next week or so to see if siloing WP does ramp the link juice as promoted.

There are 2 issues to consider... first is the best use of no-follow tags and the second is the silo effect of posts for imporved site indexing.

For the first issue there is another free no-follow robot plug-in I have found that looks impressive, here is the: Link to their homepage and video.

From the look of this WP plug-in it will do everything you need to control the indexing of your site.

But like I said, the Silo Plug-in is the only one I've seen that organises the second issue of indexing posts according to themed categories versus the chronological listing... which should prove benficial.

By the way if you click off Dan's first sales page and accept the first pop-up window the price drops to $77. Still not cheap, but if it provides the results it will be worth the investment since this has always been an issue with WP.

I hope Dan has Google alerts on and will monitor these posts and help us out.

Don

Generally, you don't need to do any configuration.

It really depends if you want the spiders to follow any of your internal pages or pages in your blog roll.

It is explained in the installation video.

Your working awfully hard to defend and sell this plugin, what affiliation do you have to the plugin designer? Its become very obvious to all of us here.......

I do not understand exactly what this plugin does. Does it actually categorize for you? If so, what happens to the categories you created when you made the site?

I'm probably missing something really basic here... Perhaps this is just something that is more useful for bigger sites?

I used Virtual Silo, a wordpress plugin which is very similar to this one, in terms of creating no follow tags. I did not find any improvement in traffic.

I am waiting for people to review on this myself.

I think there are two issues going on here that are mitigating to prevent results becoming available.

1. A limited number of people who have actually bought it

2. It is still new and people who have are waiting to see the long term effects.

I discussed my early results which were promising but I'm waiting to see where I am in a couple of months. The problem is, the plugin comes with another bonus plugin (Link Daemon) and it is hard to determine if it is the Silo Plugin, Link Daemon or both that are providing the results.

@growclicks:

Thank you for your comments.

The link you refer to (Unix Administration) is a category page, and all links (except pages/blogroll) are nofollowed as you mention.

except one

If you scroll down to the bottom of that page. Really the bottom, you will find the followed link to the oldest post in the category. It is small and only intended for the spider.

It is described it on my post on the asbjornriedel blog and you see there a small link to the dogs1 post.

So it is not a 'plot' to get all the link juice to the categories, but rather a way to ensure that all pages are being visited by the spider.

Hope it clarifies.

Does any one remember how to install the WordPress Silo plugin? Is it as simple as uploading it and activating it or is there some customization needed? I bought it several months ago and never touched it. Now I can't find the video or documentation of how to activate it.

Any help is appreciated!

I don't think you're alone with that, I think there are a lot of people who prefer manual labour. It's a bit like preferring to deal in cash than have a debit card, you kinda know where you are with it!

Of course, you have the option to hire a freelancer and you'll get the job done, but the problem I see with this in terms of the longer term is that if you hire an freelancer, it's going to cost you more AND you're in some ways relying on them to update your structure when you add new content. It's an on-going cost.

For me, it's about time. If there is a plug & play solution that saves me time, I'm a happy bunny! LOL

SEO Ultimate plugin has a siloing function in a recent update.

• SEO Ultimate Widgets -- NEW in Version 6.6
  • Lets you output your Deeplink Juggernaut Footer Links in a widget
  • The Siloed Categories widget makes it drag-and-drop-easy to construct siloed navigation on your site

Thanks eshapard, your observations are much appreciated. I always thought that no-follow was in some sort of grey area anyway.

Yes, link juice is lost because of your no-follow comment links. IMHO, you might as well convert them to follow links with the dofollow plugin.

You'll still lose link juice, but now it will go to your commenter's links. This will attract more people who will comment. It will also attract more spam comments.

Use a good anti-spam plugin such as askimet, or anti-spam bee and you'll be getting more comments and cutting down on spam. You may even get backlinks to your site from people linking to their own comments for seo purposes.

Gosh, I just edited my 7 page website that brings in most money of all to make a ton of links nofollow lol. Time to change it back