Richard Boakes has kindly alerted me to his latest Wordpress Plugin which automatically suggests metatags and technorati tags based on the content of your post.

Now this is a pretty neat concept as far as SEO for you blog goes. The plugin gives you a chance to accept or modify them before final posting which is a good feature.

You can download this wordpress plugin here: Wordpress Plugin - Automatic metatags | Automatic Technorati Tags

Some search engines still use meta tags to determine the content of your pages and posts - even in wordpress. Your wordpress blog meta tags can be changed in the header.php file, but what if you want to ad meta tags to each wordpress post.

How to use xfish_meta wordpress plugin

xfish_meta is a wordpress plugin that does just that. Simply upload the file to your plug-ins directory and activate as per usual. Then when adding a post simply ad 2 custom fields - description and keywords and Bob’s your uncle. Check page source and there are your meta tags. xfish_meta is a cool tool.

This should help with SEO for your Wordpress blog.

I’ve just installed another wordpress plugin on this blog. It’s called searchmeter. It’s pretty nifty. And definitely - you guessed it - a cool tool.

What does search-meter do?

Search-meter keeps track of all searches from your wordpress blogs search function. It records exactly which search terms your visitors are searching for on your wordpress blog. This wordpress plugin is exactly what you need if you want to track visitors and provide your visitors what they are looking for.

For example you may search this site for a particular wordpress plug-in or blogging tool or other piece of cool software and you may not find it. But I will respond to that request and research it and do a review or write something on it so next time you come back there it will be.

If it’s cool - it will be here. My hope is that search-meter will assist me to respond to my readers needs and give them want they want. Time will tell, but this is a good test of a wordpress plug-in. If it passes the test it only becomes cooler.

Be cool.