Drakenhart Studios

As I learn more about SEO and Plugins in general, I decided to trim down some of the multiple-use plugins for ones that were all inclusive. In short, fewer plugins helps the site run faster and load more quickly. So I want the power of many of these SEO Plugins without the need for so many downloads.

The Platinum SEO Pack offers this and is a pretty powerful tool. So far I like what it offers and have disabled other SEO Plugins. But I did discover something.

After visiting the Site Grader, it informed me that I had not site description or meta tag keywords. I double checked the settings of the Platium SEO Pack and everything looked fine. Then I checked my Pages. That’s when I realized what had happened.

Platinum SEO is set up so that the Blog page is your main Page. So all the settings for site description, etc, are attached to the Blog Page. Using WordPress as a CMS then requires you to do a few additional steps. You’ll need to hand-add the tags, keywords, and descriptions to each Page of the site.

Is this a major issue? Not for the majority of WordPress users who focus on blogging over CMS usage. For those using WordPress as a CMS, well it just requires a little extra work in order to make sure everything is set. As it stands it is best if you label, tag, describe, etc all your site’s Pages anyway. So this isn’t as big of a concern as it may seem.

Over all the Plugin works Great and I haven’t had any problem with it so far.

WordPress got wise, real wise. They’ve started to populate their new domain, WordPress.tv, with videos. This tickles me in ways I can barely begin to describe.

First: I’m a person who is very much supportive of people using the proper ending to their domains. The endings were created to help differentiate between content types. This way people would know from first glance just what the company is, does, and it’s intents.

• .com –> Commercial Business (Drakenhart Studios.com is being held by a friend currently. Lost contact.)
• .net –> Network (We are in our own way a network. Rather then just offer you our business end and sales pitch, we offer a form of community and continued service. Links to places that benefit our clients and viewers, and connections to our clients’ sites for people to check out!)
• .org –> Organization, like the World Wild Life Fund or the Red Corss, etc.
  
• .tv –> Television of other form of video media. (Thus WordPress.tv offering a site Full of helpful, online walkthroughs and tutorials. Bonus!)
• .biz –> General Business
• .us –> General Web Site located in the United States
• .info –> Informational site, often like a wikipedia and the like.
• .me –> No joke, this is a website that is about you.
• .mobi –> Mobile phones. Yep.

And so forth…

Why else? Video Tutorials rock in my book! Reading a manual and jumping back and forth between pages, versus  actually seeing what is being describe are two very different ways of learning. “Visual” people learn best by watching or interacting. “Abstract” people learn best from reading or looking at diagrams. I am a visual leaner rather then an abstract-text learner. So watching the videos as they -show- me what to do is exceedingly more helpful then slogging through pages after pages of Codex – of which some of it is not up to date!

Down side / Up side: It is not a “community” per say. Only certain people are allowed to post videos, unlike YouTube. This means a greater quality. This also means slower wait times as they put up more and more specific tutorials. They have to put the basics up first!

Go check it out!

Welcome and thanks for stopping by to check out my site. Secondly I’m glad to see you are intrested in this little side service of Drakenhart Studios. We try only to promote services and resources we think are greatly beneficical to our viewers and clients. To do so we offer personal reviews, check out the product, site, or service, and act as a filter for the junk so that our viewers and clients don’t waste their time or money.

We prefer honesty and forthright opinions in our reviews, and do not like to sugar coat our dislike of something if a product or service isn’t what it claims. But we do strive to be professional about our reviews as much as possible to keep away from unwanted slander. In some cases the site mascot may insert her more vibrant opinions, but this if for comedic value only.

The reviews themselves, if beneficial, can act as a form of advertisement. In some cases if we like a product, service, or site well enough we might choose to join their affiliate program. This is a bonus, for all concerned, and shows we truly do enjoy what has been offered!

Quality is key, and we only join and thus promote affiliate services we believe in and feel will help our clients and viewers! If the product, service, or site is not of a quality, that damages our reputation first and secondly will eventually reduce the in-flow of any affiliate monies. Neither is then beneficial to us, and it does not actually help our viewers and clients! What good is that?  The money is a bonus that helps us to earn more profit, yes. But they are not how-ever our primary service. (See Articles on running a business and why this is actually important!)

Our intent is to do honest business -as- we do our business, and thus to serve our clients’ and viewers best interests.

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