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Google Referrer Checker is based on an idea and script from Russ Jones (@rjonesx) on <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-seo-chasing-the-elusive-passive-seo-dream" rel="nofollow ugc">SEOMoz</a>.
Here is how he describes it:
We often joke that “Google knows everything.” While we can lament the loss of privacy and liberty, there is one thing that I do want Google to know about – my links. I want them to know about as many links pointing to my site as possible. Unfortunately, Google misses out on a good portion of the web. Well, what if you could find links that Google hasn’t necessarily found, and then make sure that Google does index them and count them?
If you were go into your Google Analytics right now and export all of the pages that have sent visitors to your site since your website’s inception, what percentage of them do you think will have been indexed by Google? 90%, 95%, 99%? Sure, it will probably vary from site to site, especially given how many different sites out there have sent traffic to you, but there are likely to be a handful that Google never got around to crawling. Our goal with this first set-it and forget-it tactic is to find the pages that refer traffic to your site on-the-fly and make sure if they have a link, that Google knows about it.
Ideally, our automated the script would:
<ul>
<li>Record every referrer from other sites.</li>
<li>Spider that site to see if it actually has a real, followed link.</li>
<li>Check to see if Google had cached that referring page with the followed link.</li>
<li>Coax Google to reindex that page if it had not yet found the link.</li>
<li>Continue to check to see if Google had cached the referring page.</li>
</ul>
This is actually quite easy to accomplish programmatically. The first three steps are done every day by tools regularly used by SEOs. The only difficult part is finding a way to encourage Google to visit the referring pages it has not yet indexed. We can solve this by simply having a widget on the page that displays those referrers, essentially an “As Seen On” bulleted list of pages that had linked to your site, but had not yet been indexed.
This plugin does just that. And adds a simple widget that will display the unindexed links.
You can see it in action on one of our <a href="http://gunnertech.com/2012/02/google-referrer-checker-a-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">site</a>.
For any more questions, please go to Gunner Technology’s post: <a href="http://gunnertech.com/2012/02/google-referrer-checker-a-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Referrer Checker: A WordPress Plugin</a> and leave a comment.
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Requires WordPress 3.0 and PHP 5.

Google Referrer Checker

A plugin that coaxes google to index sites that link to your site.

FolioVision

A simplified version of All in One SEO Pack!
Streamlined interface with no keywords field. Option to turn off excerpts and automated descriptions. Far better for pure SEO and for client use. Check screenshots.
Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
If upgrading from All in One SEO Pack, please back up your database first!
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Some features:
<ul>
<li>Shorten long post slugs to 3 longest keywords when creating new post in the Classic Editor</li>
<li>Get warning about missing title and meta description when creating new post in the Classic Editor </li>
<li>support for Google authorship and publisher fields</li>
<li>support for Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Cards</li>
<li>Canonical URLs</li>
<li>Fine tune Page Navigational Links </li>
<li>Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality</li>
<li>Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites</li>
<li>Support for CMS-style WordPress installations</li>
<li>Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines</li>
<li>Generates META tags automatically</li>
<li>Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs</li>
<li>For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.</li>
<li>For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything</li>
<li>You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.</li>
<li>Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.</li>
<li>Support for qTranslate</li>
<li>noindex and nofollow for each post (also excludes post from search and link rel prev/next attributes)</li>
</ul>

FV Simpler SEO

I used to use some other well-known SEO plugins for small projects, but found myself repeating to my clients that only 2 settings were really important for them to add to each page/post: title and description (I use another plugin to automatically add keywords based on content).  I even went so far as to hide some settings in other plugins with css or javascript to get clients to stop fiddling with them.
This plugin solves those problems for me, and seems to keep up with other SEO plugins I've used (for small projects).  Now, it is my go-to solution for giving my clients an easy, no hassle SEO solution they can understand with no direction.
I only request that the author add support for custom post types - then, it would probably be my go-to solution for all client projects.



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Google Referrer Checker vs FV Simpler SEO