I bought the SEOPressor WordPress plugin a few weeks ago when it was in the pre-launch stage and available as a WSO (Warrior Special Offer) on the Warrior Forum. Since that time there has been several updates to the plugin and I have used it on many of my old posts. So it seems like a good time to do a full-scale review.
Just to let you know that I am an SEOPressor affiliate. If you decide to buy the plugin and do so by following one of the links in this article, I will earn a commission. That said, I intend to write an honest review of my experience with the SEOPressor plugin, and if I think it’s crap, I will tell you.
SEOPressor plugin review
The first thing to mention is what the SEOPressor plugin does.
It analyses posts and pages on your blog for the main keyword or keyword phrase you want to target and it gives that post/page a score. The higher the score the better optimised the post/page is. Having a post with a high score doesn’t guarantee high search rankings, but it goes a long way toward reaching that goal.
SEOPressor calculates a post score by using a complicated algorithm that looks at many of the factors considered important for effective search engine optimisation – header tags, title tag, keyword density, text formatting (bold, italic, underline), alt tags etc.
Setting up SEOPressor plugin
The plugin comes in a zip file so you have to install it using a FTP program such as Filezilla. Once installed and activated a menu tab will appear in the left sidebar.
When you click Settings to configure the plugin you will see the following screen:
The options are self-explanatory. I have left mine in the default state.
The next step is to get down to the nitty-gritty and optimise a post.
There are two ways of doing this.
1) Open up any post you want to look at. Underneath the main writing area is the SEOPressor Keyword box. Enter the keyword phrase you want to target and click save.
(The red line on this image is my spellchecker).
Now click on POSTs SCORE (in the menu on the left hand side) and look for the post you have just edited. Any post that does not have a keyword entered in the SEOPressor Keyword field or has a low optimisation score can easily be recognised due to red highlighting.
2) Click on the POSTs SCORE link to view multiple posts, enter the keywords you want to target in the box provided for each post and hit the Update Keywords button in the bottom left hand corner of the page.
Once the benchmark has been established it’s time to get down to some tweaking.
In the latest version of the plugin many of my posts which were previously considered well optimized are now highlighted red. Which I guess indicates that the scoring algorithm has changed. As far as I can tell, 50% is the new threshold. Previously it was around the 35% mark. I think this is good. It makes me work harder on optimizing each post.
In order to improve the score for a post there are several things to do. The recommendations are available by clicking on the Suggestions link in the right hand column. These are fairly straight forward and include bold text, header tags (h1, h2 etc) and more instances of the keywords.
In earlier versions of the plugin there was no suggestions tool.
As you tweak each post check the score to make sure you are on the right track. When the red highlight disappears, you have a well optimized blog post.
Once you have one post optimized, you can start the lengthy process of going through your entire archive.
How much does it cost?
There are two packages available:
SEOPressor Single Site – $47 (the early bird offer of $37 has expired)
- Single site license
- One domain
- Free life-time updates
- Top priority support
SEOPressor Unlimited – $97 (most popular package)
- Multi-site license
- Unlimited domains
- Top priority support
- Free life-time updates
- Free installation service
Is it worth it?
In a word. Yes. It really helps you focus on the optimization level of each post you write and publish. This in turn will almost certainly guarantee an increase in traffic. Over the long-term the plugin should easily pay for itself, perhaps many times over.
Are there any bad points?
I have one or two little niggles.
1) I would like to filter drafts from published posts to enable quicker editing.
2) The automatic upgrade never works.
3) It has only just been released!
I said at the start of the post that I would tell you if it was crap. I meant that, I wouldn’t recommend a product that doesn’t deliver just so I can earn a bit of commission. That doesn’t do it for me.
I have used this plugin daily since I bought it. I have gone through my older posts and tweaked them in accordance with the recommendations of SEOPressor. I am now starting to see an increase in traffic on the posts I have further optimized.
There is nothing blackhat going on, just a straightforward assistant to help you get more traffic to your blog.
The money back guarantee is genuine too. I know there are sceptics, but SEOPressor uses Clickbank for sales, and I understand that any merchant selling through Clickbank must give refunds (within a set period) to anyone who asks. It is part of the TOS.
You have nothing to lose! Give it a go and let me know what you think.
What does SEOPressor think of this post?
This is the score given by SEOPressor to the first draft of this post for the phrase SEOPressor WordPress plugin review.
After a couple of minor tweaks I managed to increase the score:
If I remove the word ‘review’ from the targeted phrase the score increases to 70%.
