Reviewing the Squirrly SEO WordPress SEO Plugin which is a premium plugin that costs $20 a month. Since I already know how to search engine optimize a WordPress post I wouldn’t pay $20 a month for a plugin that pretty much measures keyword density and checks if a keyword is included in the title tag, alt text, body content etc… So my Squirrly SEO review is based on testing the light (free) version of the plugin running under Localhost (testing on a PC). What I did was write this article on a Localhost install so I could see the plugins SEO advice and tips as I wrote a WordPress post (this article) targeting the Squirrly SEO Review keyword phrases (as […]
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Squirrly SEO Plugin Review
I dont agree with your biased Squirrly review U must be a friend of Yoast plugin who is also biased against Squirrly.
I use Squirrly for keyword research and SEO optimization and the plugin works well for my new blog.
My website traffic is increasing and my new WP articles are indexed in Google fast, some in an hour of posting. Yoast SEO didn’t do the same on my other site.
The inspiration box helps me a lot in writing complex article with adding free content. This is an amazing SEO tool for WordPress.
I will definitely use this plugin for a very long time.
Squirrly SEO Plugin Review
Squirrly SEO vs Yoast SEO Plugin
For the record I’ve also given the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin a bad review and the author of Yoast wasn’t particularly happy about it.
Few issues I have with your Squirrly SEO Review.
1. You state it’s a new WordPress blog, if your blog is new how do you know any increase in search engine rankings and traffic are due to the Squirrly plugin?
If you had an old blog that were ranking poorly and you used Squirrly to add new content or to optimize the current content and the content started to rank better with no other SEO work (so you didn’t do anything else like gain backlinks or social media coverage) you could argue the plugin increased rankings.
2. Neither Yoast WordPress SEO or Squirrly SEO will have a major impact on Google indexing speed**. Google finds sites via backlinks and Squirrly has no impact on new backlinks, so how would it increase spidering speed?
**Yoast does include XML sitemap options and this could help Google find deeper content faster, won’t increase rankings though.
David Law
Squirrly SEO vs Yoast SEO Plugin
Squirrly SEO Plugin 50% Coupons
Well David, must say that my pages have been index in a very fast manner (24h) since I’ve started using the plug-in.
Though it’s not perfect I like the benefits I’m getting, besides there are coupons out there that cut the cost by 50%
Cheers from Texas
Squirrly Wordpress SEO Plugin XML Sitemap
I don’t use the Squirrly WordPress SEO Plugin and my WordPress posts are also indexed by Google in under 24 hours, many are indexed within minutes. Should I argue my site is indexed fast in Google because I use the Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Theme?
NO.
Google doesn’t spider and index pages faster because of the content, obviously I’m assuming your WordPress theme users links to recent posts, categories etc… so Googlebot has a way to find all posts on a site: if you had a weird setup that had no links to articles Google wouldn’t find anything. Google indexes sites fast because they have links to them that Googlebot finds and follows randomly, better linked a page is more likely Google will index it fast.
The only WordPress plugins that COULD have an impact on spidering speed are the XML sitemap plugins. If you have a plugin that generates an XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google Webmaster Tools it COULD result in new pages being indexed faster.
Since there are dozens of free Google XML sitemap plugins and they all pretty much do the same thing it’s not hard to create a Google XML sitemap. I didn’t look at the Squirrly WordPress SEO Plugin XML Sitemap output, does it do something special that results in super fast Google indexing?
From the Squirrly WordPress SEO Plugin FAQ feature list:
That’s standard XML sitemap stuff.
BTW Not sure why having Squirrly 50% Discount Codes is a reason to buy/use a WordPress plugin that’s rubbish? I can give you a 100% Squirrly Discount Code, when you get to the checkout page turn your computer off and you won’t waste any money on a worthless WordPress SEO plugin :-)
David
Squirrly Wordpress SEO Plugin XML Sitemap
Is Squirrly Legal to Google?
I watched the Squirrly video, and it promotes copying text from other blogs. This is against Google’s Terms and Conditions, and if you used it this way you might end up with no blog at all!
If I had not watched the video
I would perhaps have been impressed – but not now.
Pete
SEO Yoast
Hi I’m looking for a plugin for seo, I have spoken of seo yoast is the best?, Thanks
Squirrly Wordpress SEO Plugin
I have used this plugin and it works well for me.
Squirrly WordPress SEO Plugin - What else is there to use ?
I like the simplicity of this plugin, what else is there to use in its place?
Thanks.
Squirrly SEO Plugin
Being easy to use does not mean it should be a WordPress plugin you use.
What are you trying to achieve using the Squirrly SEO Plugin?
If it’s add unique content to a website, Squirrly doesn’t offer this as an SEO feature.
If it’s add copied content that could get your site downgraded in Google since Google considers sites that have a lot of scraped content a negative ranking signal, Squirrly can do that really well.
I can’t think of a feature in Squirrly I’d want to use? Unless it was for a low quality throw away domain I was trying to add content to fast and expected Google to penalize long term. If that were my plan I’d use an autoblog plugin like WP Robot and just let that plugin do all the work until Google banned the domain: throw the domain away, start again… Rinse and repeat…
David
Squirrly SEO Plugin
I Agree David. Squirrly appears to be promoting copying of other published content – Google WILL delist any DOMAIN (not just page) found doing this.
Pete
SEOPressor
SEOPressor is much better in terms of content optimization
Not a fan of Squirrly either but ..
rel=”nofollow” means you don’t endorse a link, so I’m not sure how that’s “damaging”. There are many services/products that I need to link to when writing reviews and the nofollow attribute makes perfect sense. Also, linking out arbitraily to “authority” sites like Wikipedia is standard practice for blackhat plugins (which Squirrly is dangerously close to being) and they do it because it works. It’s a way to fake being connected to the web and placing your own content within a larger semantic context beyond your own site.
Not a fan of Squirrly either but ..
PageRank Sculpting Using rel="nofollow"
When Google first adopted rel=”nofollow” it made perfect sense to nofollow not only links you don’t endorse, but to use nofollow to sculpt PageRank flow through a website.
When a lot of webmasters used rel=”nofollow” on the unimportant internal webpages it pushed more PR to the important webpages.
Google wasn’t happy with this, so in 2008/2009 they changed the way nofollow protect PR, see Matt Cutts Nofollow Deletes PR Quote. Now nofollow doesn’t conserve the PR for use on the dofollow links, it deletes it AKA Nofollow Links Causes SEO Damage.
See the images at http://moz.com/blog/google-says-yes-you-can-still-sculpt-pagerank-no-you-cant-do-it-with-nofollow if you don’t understand the issue:
Linking to authority sites works because of the anchor text of the link, not because you’ve forced your way into an authority circle. No authority site links back, so you only benefit from having related anchor text linking out, you can achieve the same linking internally: note the four internal keyword rich link in this comment.
David
PageRank Sculpting Using rel="nofollow"