Scribe is an SEO software service for WordPress. It’s pretty cool and you can try it for free to start. Think of it as a content optimization assistant – that analyzes web pages, blog posts, and online press releases. The goal is for the tool to assist you with the following:

• Optimizing content faster
• Eliminating guesswork about keywords
• Employing SEO best practices

Scribe tells bloggers how to tweak their content to ideally get more search engine traffic.

The plugin is available with a quick download and if your are new to SEO or even been doing it for a while, if you have multiple bloggers then this is a good way to keep all your content in check. It makes sure that before you publish you have your content ready to go, custom title tag added and your meta description as well. An SEO’s dream.

Ever wish that you could ever so gently nudge some of visitors to comment or promote your content? There have been many instances where someone will email me or mention in passing that they really liked my blog post on “such and “such” and when I then go to check they never left a comment…hmphhhh. It’s like thanks for the feedback but a comment would be much more helpful…well guess what…there’s a tool that can help you.

At HubSpot, my place of employment, we constantly talk about the importance of “nurturing your leads”. That is absolutely an important component to ensuring that those you engage with you continue to stay engaged. In a similar manner this wordpress plugin, WP Greet Box, allows you to stay on top of with your returning visitors. Why not nudge someone who returns to your site…they are obviously interested so nurture them by keeping them engaged and in the process giving others a chance to become engaged.

Are you intrigued? So here’s the deal…”Greet Box” allows you to set customized messages to certain audiences. So if someone comes to your site via Stumble Upon you can encourage that visitor to Stumble your content. Pretty cool huh. I haven’t used it yet myself but as I find time I will let you all know how’s it going. You can see more details, screenshots etc through WordPress.

Let me know if you try this yourself, or if you are employing similar ways to engage your loyal followers and fans.

My most recent wordpress project was one that required a move from Blogger’s Blogspot to WordPress. Check it out www.rungranolarun.com

Many bloggers often start out with Blogspot.com and then wish they were using WordPress instead. The move is actually not too difficult.

Depending on the hosting solution that you use for your WordPress, you may or may not be able to upload the Blogger’s blog directly. I use Bluehost (found it’s limitation) and had to use a workaround. WordPress.com actually did the trick.

Here are the steps you want to follow:

1. Log in to or create a WordPress.com account. Once logged in you want to find the “Tools” tabAfter selecting the tools tab click on “Import.” Within the import section you then select “Blogger”, then authorize. This section will take you to your Google Account for which the log in is the same as your Blogspot.com log in. If you are already logged in then this won’t be prompted. Google will then ask you again to authorize the connection so click “grant access”.

Once you have finished this connecting process. Your Import > Blogger access will now show you all Blogspot.com blogs that you have with that respective account. Select the one that you want to transfer to WordPress.

Click “Import” and the process will proceed automatically. This however is where (if your WordPress setup won’t allow it) you could get stuck. What happened to me was that I’d select import and each time only one post would import and then the process would stop. The workaround is to use WordPress.com as I mentioned.

After the import is complete and you verify that indeed all of your posts and comments are uploaded you can then do the reverse (unless you are not self hosting, in which case you’d be done now). For those who are self hosting follow the steps under “Tools” > “Export” now. It simply exports WordPress to a file that can then in turn be uploaded to your hosted wordpress account.

2. Before you proceed with the final import make sure that you have installed the WordPress Plugin Blogger Redirector and that your permalinks are set to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html which is the same format that Blogger uses. This way when you set the final redirect from Blogger all of your posts will redirect as well.

3. Test, test, test

4. Log in to Blogspot.com under “Settings” > “Publishing” > “Advanced Settings” and enter your new WordPress domain address. Then save those settings.

Your final product just may look something like this

Hope this helps. I’d love to know what your experience with blog migrations has been.