Version 2.0.4
Strictly AutoTags is a Wordpress plugin that is designed to do one thing and one thing only which is to add the most relevant and appropriate tags to your posts as well as discovering new tags on the way with as little effort as possible.
This plugin is ideal for people starting new blogs who haven't yet built up their own taxonomy lists as the Auto Discovery feature enables you to build up your tag lists automatically. As new posts get added your tag list will grow with your blog. It is also great for Automatic Blogging Systems or sites that require accurate tagging and great Search Engine Optimisation with as little human interaction as possible.
How it works
The plugin scans each new post as its added for suitable words that could be used as tags and then orders them so that only the most relevant words get added to the post.
As well as using existing tags to find new ones this plugin has an Auto Detect feature which when enabled will use some simple logic to detect new words to treat as tags. I have found that over 90% of all the tags I use in my numerous blogs fall into one of the following three categories: Acronyms e.g CIA, FBI, AIG, IT, SQL, ASP, names of people and places and countries. Therefore unlike other plugins Strictly AutoTag will scan new posts for words or sentences that match these three groups and then use them as potential tag candidates.
Version 2.0 has had some new features added including the ability to clean up under-used post tags at a click of a button and the ability to remove noise words that have already been added as post tags so that they don't get re-used in future auto taggings.
Version 2.0.4 has increased the plugins Search Engine Optimisation features by allowing you to wrap matching tags in <strong> tags as well as being able to rank potential tags that are found withing H1-H6, EM, B, STRONG and A tags higher than others.
If you want to check out a website that has been using the plugin for sometime then check out www.darkpolitricks.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.
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Download the plugin
- Unzip the strictlyautotags.zip file
- Upload the directory strictlyautotags to the /wp-content/plugins directory on your WordPress blog
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Configure the plugin in the admin section of Wordpress
Download Strictly Auto Tags
The plugin is hosted on the Wordpress Subversion repository and if you are looking for the most up to date version you should check there first to access the individual files in the trunk.
If you want the most up to date stable version all zipped up then you should use the Wordpress download link.
If for whatever reason the Wordpress server is unavailble then you can download a version from my own server here: Strictly AutoTags version 2.0
Donations Appreciated
Your donations help keep my work freely available. Please consider a small donation of any amount to show your appreciation if you like this plugin.
