SOS Marketing, LLC.

At this point, it’s hard to write a really detailed review on the Platinum SEO WordPress Plugin. The reason is, I’m not sure exactly how well it works compared to working without it.

Here’s what I can say. There are a lot of options in the plugin, most of which are easy to figure out. If your a complete and total newbie on the internet some of them may be a bit out of your understanding, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t use the Platinum SEO WordPress Plugin. It just means, you may not immediately be able to set everything up in the best way.

As far as that goes, I as a veteran of the Internet and marketing, don’t think I even understand all the options and I’m probably not maximizing my usage of the plugin either. Perhaps better descriptions or explanations of things would be helpful to those (like myself) that need or want a little more information as to what a feature or setting actually does.

I do like the extra options and the extra feeling I have of being able to control what is going on from an SEO point of view on my site. That alone, makes me keep installing it on nearly every blog I set up. There is a time issue that comes into play, because you don’t just set it up once time on the settings page and then forget it. There is an option on every Add New Post page that allows you to customize your SEO options. If you really take the time to do this every time, I’m sure that in some way the Platinum SEO WordPress Plugin, has to have an effect.

The things I don’t like. Well, once I got rid of the stupid smiley face that was up on the top left corner of my blogs, I felt a lot better. But there is actually a much bigger pain in the rear, that on one hand I get, since this is an open source plugin and the author is actually giving it away and that pain is, every time a new update to the plugin comes out, which seems fairly frequent (and this is usually a good thing, because it means it is actively being developed), it automatically selects the checkbox at the bottom of the SEO options page, saying to promote the Platinum SEO WordPress Plugin by showing a link to the page….

Problem with this, two-fold. The link is ugly and huge and totally misplaced. On some themes it shows on bottom right corner of the WordPress Site and on other themes it shows in an even worse position, on the top left hand corner. That means, every time you do an auto-update you must also go in and uncheck that setting and getting annoyed. There are times that I even consider deactivating the plugin altogether, so I don’t have to deal with it. Especially when I must do this on 5 or 10 blogs… grrr….

But ultimately I keep the Platinum SEO WordPress Plugin on most of my wordpress sites, because I think they just might be working. I have noticed that several of my articles are getting picked up very quickly by Google‘s search engine and that is a good thing. But can I say it is because of the Platinum SEO WordPress Plugin?

No, not with any certainty at all. It might be the quality of the article, it might be the sitemap that is auto-generated every time a change occurs to my site. It could even be the MBP Ping Optimizer that sends a ping of every post to all the major search engines and pinging sites on the internet. It could be because every post I make on my site also posts on 4 or 5 other blogs/sites across the net and those other sites or blogging networks are heavily spidered by the search engines, getting caught in an hour or less most of the time. Then I also have status updates posted at the same time to at least 5 or 6 of the major Social Networking websites, speaking of the post I just made.

So the reasons for being found by the Search Engines could be for many, many reasons.

There is one more dislike that I have of the plugin. It has a few computability problems with themes, that render a blank page with activated. If you are familiar with the now popular ‘Paper’ Theme, that is most commonly used as a sales page or at least by Internet Marketer‘s Online, then you don’t want to use the Platinum SEO WordPress Plugin.

In conclusion, the plugin surely makes me feel better and I will probably keep using it for some time or at least until I find a better option to do the same thing. I don’t find it perfect in any way, nor do I like forcing me to post a link to the plugin on my blog without any real control of how or where it is put. Then finally, I have no idea whether it is really doing anything extra for me, outside of just helping me to feel much better about my SEO on my website.

Go ahead and give it a try though… test it out, at this point I don’t think it can hurt, I strongly believe all it can do is help.