Projects


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Sep 10

Copy Compass – a South African SEO Plugin

Copy Compass - Content Analysis WordPress PluginIf you dont already know, Copy Compass is the latest project under the wing of the newly branded digital marketing agency, Talooma. Copy Compass is a WordPress plugin that analyses your copy to best search engine optimisation practices. it provides you with in overall score as well as highlights key areas that may need optimising within your copy.

Copy Compass is the ideal plugin for your blog or website. It allows you to optimise your copy in line with generally accepted SEO best practices.

It is ideal for the casual blogger or the more serious blog master or website owner who wants to ensure his content always ranks well within the search engine results pages.

For many months I have been wanting to release a meaningful WordPress plugin that can actually compete with the international big boys and I believe Copy Compass may just be able to do it.  Many hours worth of research, practice and a whole heap of overall brain cell usage has gone into this plugin. Copy Compass was originally developed in my spare time as an in-house tool for Talooma which was meant to increase the quality of copy, in terms of SEO, and to help our customers rank higher in the search engine results pages. Upon using Copy Compass internally, most of our articles and content have climbed the ranks substantially and much progress has been made.

The complete plugin is not available as yet and only a scaled down version of the plugin has been released into the market. This version includes functionality such as the following:

  • Monitor your reading ease score: This is an indication of how easy or difficult your text is to read.
  • Monitor your gunning fog index:  A useful representation of what grade level you need in order to comprehend the text (eg: Grade 7, 8 etc)
  • Keyword Density: All online marketers know the importance of keyword density and how it can affect your rankings.
  • Basic SEO principles: Copy Compass monitors some basic principles needed to do well in the rankings.

If you have any ideas, suggestions and/or comments about Copy Compass, please do not hesitate to make use of the form on the site. All feedback is welcome.


14
May 10

myScoop’s first WordPress Plugin – “myScoop Rank Display”

Its been quite some time that I’ve been wanting to develop a WordPress widget for myScoop users. I have finally put something together. Once activated, this plugin will let you be able to select a Widget to display on your blog. This Widget will automatically connect to myScoop and display your blogs rank history for the past 14 days.

Some background information:

  • The plugin comes packaged with the source for Open Flash charts.
  • The widget connects to myScoop to retrieve a data file and displays information relevant to your DOMAIN.
  • This could potentially be a very processor-intensive widget for myScoop (not your blog). Therefore I am looking at creating a cache file with your blog’s rank information for less server stress and quicker display on your side. This will be available in the next version.
  • There are currently no configurable settings for this widget. Simply install and activate – Once activated the widget will be available for use.
  • In future versions I would like to let the user be able to select whether or not they would like to display the graph or their current rank within myScoop.

Before officially releasing this I would need to do some testing and stability checks. Are there any bloggers that would be willing to help with this? All I would need from you is to install the plugin and give me feedback on any bugs or errors that you find, as well as any suggestions.

myScoop WordPress Rank Widget

myScoop WordPress Rank Widget


9
May 10

myScoop now displays Top Risers and Top Fallers

As the title suggests, myScoop now shows the top risers and fallers for the day. Every midnight, myScoop will calculate the top risers and fallers compared to yesterdays ranks. This information is displayed on the home page underneath the “latest articles” section. Below is a screen shot of the new feature.

myScoop top risers and fallers

myScoop top risers and fallers


8
May 10

Rank History now available on myScoop

Its been a while since I released new features on myScoop. Things have been increasingly hectic here on my side of the world. However, I apologise for the lack of updates!

I have just finished installing a new feature in myScoop that allows you to track your blog’s rank history. This feature is available in the “Stats” section of your blog. Every day, myScoop automatically calculates your myScoop Rank, Alexa Rank, Active Rank and User-engagement Rank. You now have the ability to see how your blog has performed over the passed few months. See the below picture for an example of what you should expect. (This is a good example for those of you bloggers out there that don’t post often, like myself. You’ll notice that my myScoop rank increased steadily over time.)

myscoop-rank-history

If you are as observant as myself, you would have noticed that the “Active Rank” stayed constant over this time. This is a bug. I have fixed this bug and your “Active Rank” will now be correctly calculated every day.

Please note that I am working on many more exciting features and these will be available in the next few weeks.

Thanks for your support!


17
Mar 10

myScoop slowly climbing the ranks

It would appear that myScoop‘s popularity is steadily growing (atleast according to Alexa). I thought I would take the time to share the below graph with myScoop’s supporters. Thanks guys!

myScoop vs Afrigator vs Amatomu

myScoop vs Afrigator vs Amatomu