Strictly AutoTags 2.0.8 Released

Strictly Auto Tags 2.0.8 Released


I have just released a new version of Strictly AutoTags (or Strictly Auto Tags) which includes extra SEO options which will enable you to now not only wrap certain tags in <strong> tags but also link them to their related tag page.

This feature is called Deep Linking and the aim is that you can let BOTS find extra content related to your article quickly from the post.

You can control the number of words per tag that get deep-linked as well as limiting the deep-linking to tags with a minimum number of posts e.g only deep-link tags with 10 posts associated with them.

The benefit of deeplinking when you are saving a post and not as other SEO plugins do on outputting it is that you speed up the display of the article.

Remember you only save a post one or a few times whilst it can be displayed thousands of times (with or without a caching plugin).

There are also options to clean out the SEO options e.g remove the deep-linking and bolding when you save a post so that every edit gets a new AutoTag scan.

If you want to check out a website that has been using the plugin for sometime then check out www.ukhorseracingtipster.com and see the tags that are displayed for each article.

If you like the plugin and make a donation then let me know and I will add a backlink from this site to yours so that you get some free advertising and some PR / Link Juice from Google.

Check out the main Wordpress plugin repository to download the latest version or visit the plugin page on my main site.

Strictly TweetBOT Version 1.1.2 Released

Version 1.1.2 of the Wordpress Plugin - Strictly TweetBot released

New features and bug fixes include:

• Fixed bug with some words in the TweetShrink function.
• Added new short versions of words for the TweetShrink function.
• I have improved the performance of the loop that controls the tweets by only getting the permalink for the new post once and not on every loop iteration as before.
• I have added an option to make an HTTP request to the new post before tweeting so that if caching plugins are installed and their caching options are enabled correctly the page will get cached before any Twitter rush from BOTS visiting the post. I have proved that at least 50+ (growing all the time) requests to any link in a new Twitter post can concurrently occur when a Tweet is posted.
• I have added an option to use a different user-agent when making this HTTP request so that you can easily identify the request in your access log files for debugging etc.
• I have also added a new configuration test to the "Config Test" button which tests the HTTP Cache test by posting the last article posted and returning a status code for it.

Caching new posts before any Twitter Rush

The main feature of this release is the ability to fire off an HTTP request to the post being Tweeted about before any Tweets are sent.

The idea is that if you are using any number of caching systems (properly configured obviously - and every caching system is different) the first page request will be from the TweetBot and hopefully cause that page to be cached by the system you are using e.g WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Apache Caching modules etc.

The aim is that by caching the post before any Tweets are sent that any Twitter Rush that occurs when your link hits Twitter does not overload it by having 50+ BOTS all concurrently hitting the page and competing to be the first visit to cause the page to be cached for future visitors.

Obviously if you are logged in as admin when writing your post then this might not cause a cache in some systems. For example WP Super Cache has an option to prevent logged in users from seeing cached pages. Therefore if you are logged in when you write a post this automated HTTP request might not cache the page if you have set the option on NOT to serve cached pages for logged in users.

However if you are auto-blogging and importing posts from feeds using WP Robot, WP-O-Matic or any other system then you will not be logged in and this HTTP request should create a cached page for BOTS to hit.

As I said, it all depends on the caching system you are using and how you configure it.

Remember every caching system is different and it all depends on the options you configure in the admin area of your own particular caching system. So make sure it is configure correctly to allow for the first visit to any post to be cached.

So version 1.1.2 of Strictly-Tweetbot is now live and you can download it from my main site or from the Wordpress plugin repository whenever you want.