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Autometa: Meta Tags for each post

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This plugin for Wordpress 2.0+ provides a neat way to create tags for each of your posts, based on the first time you save the post you are writing. Here is the text taken from the Autometa website:

Automatic Tag Generation

This plugin will automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. When you save your post (and before you publish it) the plugin checks to see if any tags have been associated with it.

In fact, this tool works very well. It’s simple to install, requires virtually no configuration to get started. But here’s the biggest HOWEVER. If you use it to create automatic tags, you may find that there are some problems:

  • it tags based on your post’s first save only;
  • it creates tags that may not be appropriate; and
  • you NEED to edit the tags for EVERY post.

The actual editing of the tags is relatively straight forward, too. In your blog page creation space, just scroll down until you see ‘Custom Fields.’ That’s where you edit your tags. It takes but a few seconds, and the results are well worth it.

IDrive-E: Sounds like a good IDEA

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Ever lost a hard disk with your precious data on it? I have several times. The first time was the most serious, the second or third times, I lost recent stuff only. But still having a disk go down means your files, pictures, data, addresses, favorites, music, etc.. all go with it! Frustrating.
IDrive-E is offering a service with lots of online backup features and enough space to save most of your work files, or important stuff, for FREE! With a small monthly payment of $4.95 you can get unlimited space for your backups. A year’s payment would certainly be cheaper than purchasing a new hard-drive, but there is an important additional security aspect: your data would be protected in an off-site location. If your house or work pc was stolen or damaged, as happened to a friend of mine, no problems, you’d still have your back up data set online.

In addition, you can make the space appear as a virtual drive with Windows Explorer. In other words, it would appear just like an ordinary drive, making data access easy, quick and convenient. When it comes time to restore your file(s), you can access any of the backup set versions that are stored, so you can make sure you have the right version.

For investorbloggers, backing up your data on a regular basis is a hassle, but a necessary one for the most part. The whole process can be automated, saving you time to focus on your business.

This post has been backed by IDrive-E.

Improve Your SEO: A quick action program

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This blog is becoming popular somehow. Up until now, this has been more or less a random aspect. Somehow this blog has shot up to nearly 1,000,000 on Alexa. But I’m becoming aware of a number of major shortcomings on this blog’s drive for boosting its ratings.

1. Autometa: Meta-tags for Technorati are important, I’m learning that I should fix these words and add them myself

2. Key words: I just analyzed my keywords via iWebTools only to find that the keywords in my blog are not well focused. Take a look at the list yourself:

11th actually additional also been blog blogging both business but can capital car click comments could count customers do don’t enough february get go good had have help hosting i if insurance investorblogger journal just kennethdickson know like list loans make making me money more my need new no not now one online opportunities our out own payperpost people phone post posted posts program provide quite read review see service so some something sponsors stats there those though time tools total up very way we website websites well which word words would you 5 6 9 2006 2007

I’m going to have to find ways to add the most important keywords into each blog post so that results are more effective.

3. The post slugs, the link slugs, too, the category titles and slugs: all of these need more focus at least in part, as a way to help improve the search ratings.

To do all of this on over 200 posts, numerous links, and nearly 30 categories could take hours. Mmm. Food for thought there.

These kinds of steps could improve almost any blog