Disable SEO Pressor?

14 years ago

I've deactivated SEO Pressor. I had several sites drop and since then I've added content and de-optimized them (got rid of seo pressor, decreased my kw density, h1/h2 tags, etc). My sites have started to come back (currently in the #2 and #3 positions for respective KWs). I'll let you know if I crawl all the way back to #1.

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cooler1

14 years ago

Originally Posted by snydie22

I've deactivated SEO Pressor. I had several sites drop and since then I've added content and de-optimized them (got rid of seo pressor, decreased my kw density, h1/h2 tags, etc). My sites have started to come back (currently in the #2 and #3 positions for respective KWs). I'll let you know if I crawl all the way back to #1.

That is interesting to hear.

What percentage exactly did you decrease your keyword density to?

How long exactly did it take for you to see an improvement in rankings after you did all that?

Did you still put your targetted keyword in the first and last sentence of the content?

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snydie22 14 years ago

KW percentage is different on the sites but all are now less than 1%. My sites that had a KW density > 1% all dropped.

The sites that I've launched in the last 2 months all had KW density < 1% and none of them dropped. One actually went to #1 (low competition phrase - 1000 exact searches) and one went from somewhere in the 20s to 6 (8800 exact searches).

The ones that did drop only dropped 5 - 10 spots. I made changes over the weekend and they seem to be coming back.

KW is still in the first sentence and last paragraph of all of my ranking pages.

Since I made multiple changes at once, I can't pinpoint exactly what is helping me (hopefully, all of it is helping).
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cooler1

14 years ago

The few sites of mine which were not negatively affected by Penguin are using SEO Pressor also so it seems that having the keyword bolden, italic and underlined isn't a bad thing. Maybe its a combination of other things like keyword density which cause an 'over optimization' filter to trip.

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Khemal

14 years ago

I use SEOPressor on most of my sites but i turned off the option that lets the plugin auto highlight keywords due to the glaring footprint of "wp-content/plugins/seo-pressor/templates/css/styles.css" I manually highlight my keywords.

You think Google isn't smart enough to read your page source and see that you are openly using SEO plugins?

Having said that, my sites using SEOPressor have been effected 50/50. That's just me. SEOPressor is a great plugin. Don't get me wrong. But use it to analyze your site and not to do the highlighting etc.

The point of this post is to open people's eyes regarding SEO plugins and their footprints. Don't let them do all the work. Use them as a tool for guidance and do some work manually if you want to break away from the herd.

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14 years ago

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retsek

14 years ago

The fact is that the plugin's recommendations and automatic settings will very likely get a site in trouble with Penguin. You need to cut it back (if you haven't already since last time I checked).

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cooler1

14 years ago

Originally Posted by retsek

The fact is that the plugin's recommendations and automatic settings will very likely get a site in trouble with Penguin. You need to cut it back (if you haven't already since last time I checked).

What settings do you recommend changing to cut it back?

I have a few sites which didn't get affected by the Penguin update and they use SEOPressor also so the plugin alone isn't causing the problem.

Although the on page optimization which the plugin makes may have some bearing on the algo's calculation because it takes a huge number of factors into consideration what deciding a page ranking so it maybe is attributing towards it.

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uoftenwinny

14 years ago

I just have know that Google panda and penguin will do harm to websites, I find it's hard to get good ranking when Google updates.

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webinventaekhlas

14 years ago

I never installed this plugin!!! I have joomla and wordpress sites but I never heard of it!!! As I do most of the SEO things manually......

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Rus Sells

14 years ago

If you haven't blocked your wp-content folder from being spidered you are yelling for Google to see what seo cheat type plugins you are using. Think about that a moment.

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cooler1

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

If you haven't blocked your wp-content folder from being spidered you are yelling for Google to see what seo cheat type plugins you are using. Think about that a moment.

Is Google against people using SEO plugins then or only specific ones? In what way is it cheating just because the plugin automates some of the on page SEO things?