As a loyal Premium News User, we’ve decided to reward you with the release of an exclusive SEO plugin that will only work with any of the Premium News themes range. The theme is thus an enhancement on the already SEO-optimized coding of the theme and it should thus propel you into better search engine positions. The plugin was developed by WordPress guru, Joost de Valk - so you can be assured of the quality of this offering!

Click Here to purchase this plugin now for only $34.95!

Please Note: If you bought a Premium News theme prior to 12 February 2008, your theme will need to be upgraded and you thus need to e-mail me at adii {at} adii {dot} co {dot} za to get the updated files (don’t worry it’s only like 3 files - it won’t change your customized version of the theme).

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the features of the plugin:

Add metadata to all posts?
This gives you a few extra boxes in the edit post and edit page section of your blog, so you can write unique titles, meta descriptions and meta keywords for your posts and pages.

Nofollow all meta links?
Each page on your blog has a certain amount of PageRank. That PageRank is distributed between the pages that page links to. By adding a rel=”nofollow” tag to all the login, registration and RSS feed links, you make sure that the PageRank is not going to places it shouldn’t go to.

Nofollow advertising links?
Banner ads are also links, and, because you’ve sold them, they are paid links. Most search engines ask of you add a nofollow tag to those paid links, to make sure those advertisements don’t help their pages rank in the search engines too.

Add NOODP and NOYDIR tags to -section?
Google, Yahoo! and Live Search all check whether your page is listed in DMOZ, and will sometimes use the description and/or the title used in DMOZ as the title for your site. Yahoo! also does the same thing with it’s own Yahoo! Directory. This means that what your description looks like in the search engines, is no longer under your control.

Adding the NOODP and NOYDIR tags to your meta tags, prevents the search engines from doing this, and thus makes sure you are in full control of what your search engine listings look like.

Noindex meta pages and comment feeds
Is there any use for your login or registration page to be listed in the search engines, like these? No, I don’t think so either. Adding these
noindex meta tags prevents search engines from listing these pages.

Noindex comment feeds
Is there any use for your comment feeds to be listed in the search engines, like these? No, I don’t think so either. Adding these noindex meta tags prevents search engines from listing these feeds.

Disable author archives?
By default, WordPress creates an archive for each author, to be found under /author/author-name/. If you have a one author blog, that archive will be the exact same thing as your front-page, and thus be duplicate content.

RSS Footer
By adding this line of code to the bottom of your feeds, you can try to garner a few more backlinks from people stealing your content by copying your RSS feed, so called “scrapers”.

Verification for webmaster tools
All three major search engines offer specific tools for webmasters, for which you have to verify your site with a meta tag. You can easily do that with these three fields by copying the contents of the content=”” section of those metatags.