Scribe SEO Review

I have recently been try­ing out the new Scribe SEO by Brian Clark of Copy­blog­ger. I’ve had a chance to try it out on a few of my posts, both present and past posts. Here are my thoughts on Scribe SEO.

Search engine opti­miza­tion is a big thing around the online mar­ket­ing world. If you write some­thing that is opti­mized for SEO, you can bring in a lot of nat­ural traf­fic from search engines. There is also big debate on writ­ing for the SEO and writ­ing for read­ers. The read­abil­ity can suf­fer if you over­stuff your arti­cle with key­words. While writ­ing too much for the read­ers doesn’t opti­mize your arti­cle for SEO. It’s always seems like it’s one way or the other.

I always thought it would be nice to find a mid­dle ground. Make it read­able and SEO freindly. Frankly I’m not good with opti­miz­ing for SEO. At least not on my blog. I tend to write in a nat­ural voice and while I do repeat things I’m not going to stuff my “con­ver­sa­tion” with repeats of the same word (or maybe I do…). Don’t get me wrong, Google does like some of my arti­cles. I have a few that are pulling in some nat­ural traf­fic. Just not as much as I would like.

So, here I am try­ing to fig­ure out how to opti­mize my arti­cles so that they can be good for both SEO and my read­ers. That’s when I came across this awe­some soft­ware. As I said, I’m still learn­ing the tricks of search opti­miza­tion and this par­tic­u­lar soft­ware showed me that I was right, I’m not very good at opti­miz­ing my blog for SEO at all. But that’s also a good thing.

The cool thing that makes Scribe SEO stand out from other search engine opti­miza­tion tools is that it works with what you have already writ­ten. Basi­cally you write your blog and then use this tool to opti­mize it for SEO. That way it is still read­able and it makes the search engines happy. Who can argue with that?

Here’s How It Works

Scribe SEO is actu­ally a plu­gin for word­press. The only require­ments are to have the fol­low­ing themes: The­sis (great theme for seo btw), Head­way, or Hybrid. Or you can also use the The All In One SEO plu­gin. The rea­son it needs one of these is because they pro­vide cus­tom fields for title tags and meta description.

Basi­cally these are the two things that show up in the search results when some­one does a search. Like this:

These themes and plu­gin will allow you to cus­tomize how your title and descrip­tion will show up on the search engine. Scribe SEO uses this data to opti­mize your arti­cle. It then ana­lyzes your arti­cle and tells you what you need to help the search engines like your con­tent as well.

What That Means

Basi­cally, what that means is that you can write out your arti­cle to please your read­ers. After­wards you use Scribe SEO to ana­lyze every­thing. It then presents to you what you can do to improve the SEO aspects of your arti­cle. Such as word count, link count, key­words, pri­mary key­words, etc. It will even sug­gest ways to change your main key­word and give you data and sug­ges­tions for other key­words. It really is a pow­er­ful lit­tle piece of software.

Final Thoughts

This is exactly what I needed to help me get the idea of search engine opti­miza­tion down with­out actu­ally hav­ing some­one stand here and show me. If I was writ­ing purely for the idea of SEO I could do it. And I know I can write for my read­ers as that is my main focus any­ways. But this lit­tle piece of soft­ware is what is going to help me find that mid­dle line. And prob­a­bly a lot of other peo­ple too. But not only is it going to help me but (this is key right here) it also helps me learn why it works and how it works.

This doesn’t just do the work for you. It shows you what you can do to make your arti­cle more effi­cient. It’s up to you to make it work. And that is what I love about this plug in. Even if I don’t have Scribe SEO to guide me along the way, I will know how to do it because it has shown me before. I’m learn­ing how opti­mize and please both my read­ers and search engines. I love it!

That right there is worth the price alone. It’s like hav­ing some­one show what your doing wrong and what you are doing right. Speak­ing of price, it’s fairly priced in my opin­ion for the value you get out of it. There are 3 dif­fer­ent pay­ment plans (monthly), each one suited for dif­fer­ent needs. If you do affil­i­ate work online, you could use this plu­gin to really rev up the SEO and bring traf­fic to your affil­i­ate prod­uct. Ya, it’s not just for blog­gers. It’s good for press releases, arti­cles, web pages, basi­cally any­thing that needs to be opti­mized for SEO.

I’ve ram­bled on long enough but I just wanted to give you an idea of how cool this is. Plus it has the name Brian Clark behind it so you know there is some exper­tise to the whole thing. Def­i­nitely a rec­om­men­da­tion for those try­ing to sort out the search engine mystery.

Find Out More About Scribe SEO

The main page
Here is the main page and you can go through here and take a tour that will explain how it works and why it works bet­ter than I can.

Try it for free
Here you can try it out for 5 eval­u­a­tions which should give you plenty of time to decide if it’s worth it. (It only took me a cou­ple times to real­ize I made a great investment.)

Video Demo
Here is a video that goes over installing it and how it works.

Reviews
Go to google and do some of your own home work. There are reviews pop­ping up all over the place about this.

~Chris

p.s. As of yet, I am not affil­i­ated to Scribe SEO so all links go directly to their page. They will have an affil­i­ate pro­gram soon though. Oh and until Feb. 26th they have a 72% sale on the advanced plan. So if you want to try it out I would hurry .

Have you used Scribe SEO yet? How did you like it? What did you like about it?

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