Welcome back to Make that Sea Change – the website where we discuss all things Affiliate Marketing to assist you with the building of your own online business. And as we run through this journey one of the most common terms that you will hear is SEO or Search Engine Optimisation. Today I am going review a plugin that you may want to install into your wordpress editor called WordVantage. In an effort to determine whether I could improve my SEO with WordVantage, I will run you through:

• What it is
• How it works
• Pros and Cons
• Cost
• My recommendations

Can I improve my SEO with WordVantage? – well, yes, but with some caveats.  Please read on to see what I think…

Why do we need SEO?

Effective SEO processes are the lifeblood of any website as it is what determines where you rank within search engine results pages (SERPs). In the simplest of terms, the more SEO processes you have in place, the higher you can potentially rank. The higher you then rank, the more traffic you can attract to your site, and the more traffic you attract, the higher the chances are that some of them will make a purchase or click on your affiliate links. Some of the main SEO techniques include:

• Consistent addition and refreshing of valuable, well constructed content
• Inclusion of high ranking keywords, Internal and external links and media
• Social media promotion
• Backlinks
• Search engine registration and analysis tool interrogation
• Competitor analysis

What is WordVantage?

WordVantage is a wordpress plugin that promotes assistance in attracting high volumes of free traffic to your website. It does this at the website post/page development level by providing ongoing SEO analysis of the page that you are building. As the post is written, the WordVantage plugin will ‘score’ your site to ensure that you have covered the basic SEO requirements prior to publication.

How does it work?

The plugin adds an extra section to your wordpress editor screen that lists each of the SEO general requirements it believes you need to achieve the best possible rankings within SERPs. These requirements include:

• Keyword measurement and inclusion metrics including:
  • One H1 and one H2 header with keyword
  • Keyword in first sentence
  • Keyword in content set as bold font
  • Measurement of keyword density within post
• Word count
• Video and image included in post
• Internal and external links included within post

The plug in also contains sections to add

• Meta Title
• Meta Description
• Meta Keywords

What do you get?

There are four main areas of coverage within the plug in including:

At a glance

Product Name: WordVantage

Founder: Morpheus

Product Type: WordPress SEO Plugin

Price: $14 once off payment

Best For: Anybody looking for a little extra SEO assistance at time of content development.

Recommended: For those with current WordPress sites without a working SEO plugin – Yes, For those new to affiliate marketing or website development who need extra assistance – No (See below for my #1 recommendation).

Pros

• Real time SEO analysis.
• Once off payment with no ongoing subscriptions or up sells.
• Training videos available.

Cons

• Only works with WordPress.
• Tends to promote it as an all encompassing tool that gets you rankings with little work.
• Does not cover some other critical SEO elements such as Search engine crawl tools, back links and social media promotion etc.
• No free/trial version.

How much is it?

$14 once off purchase cost for the plug in.

Do I recommend it?

If you have a website and an understanding of SEO and the extra requirements that are not included within this tool, then I can definitely see an advantage to using it within your wordpress editor. I like the look and feel of the plugin, it’s easy to understand metrics and ease of use however I do feel that the manufacturers tend to over promote the ‘get free traffic and high rankings for not much work’ aspects of the plugin. That is not to say that the contents covered are not critical elements of SEO and if you implement this tool as a means of establishing a solid grounding of SEO processes then I would definitely expect to see your page rise in the SERP rankings.

However, and it is only a plugin so I am maybe being a little harsh here but if you are looking for well-rounded platform with inbuilt SEO tools included as well as a complete all-encompassing training package, then I would give this a miss for now.

What do I recommend?

As I have said, if you have your website under control and simply need this tool to keep you on the SEO straight and narrow, then there are definite advantages to it. However, if you are relatively new to the whole website building and ranking caper, then I recommend that you give Wealthy Affiliate a try. Wealthy Affiliate is a comprehensive training, building and hosting platform that will guide you through the entire online business building process, including SEO in an easy to follow but comprehensive manner.

And best of all, you can join for free and get access to step by step tuition with the tools to develop and host your very own website, help to identify a good niche, 24/7 support and access to some of the best affiliate marketing minds on the planet. Want to know more? Then click on this link to read my complete review about Wealthy Affiliate.

Conclusion

So there you have it, my honest review and appraisal of the WordVantage WordPress SEO plugin. I hope it has been of assistance but as usual, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out by commenting below. Are there any other programs you have been looking at but want to know more about?If so, please comment below and I will do my best to get some details for you.

Until next time

Have fun

Paul

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