If you have old post in your blog and you expected a little more out of? Use this tool to go back, re-evaluate, and tweak things a bit to improve them.

I also think too many Scribe users get hung up on trying to get 100% on their posts, which isn’t always possible and isn’t necessarily a death sentence. I just shoot for 80% or better. If I’m really concerned about SERP ranking then off-page factors are likely more important than a 100% score for on-page factors. (I know I’m preaching to the choir on this one, right?) Maybe this is one area that they have oversimplified – putting so much emphasis on a single percentage score and displaying it in a huge font. It must drive all the perfectionistic bloggers out there absolutely crazy when they score less than 100%.

The other issue, in my opinion, is price. I’ve mentioned this here and elsewhere – I don’t really consider Scribe to be a bargain at it’s current level of functionality and pricing structure. If the pricing isn’t going to change, then I do hope they will improve the functionality to make it an easier purchase decision. I’m just glad I got in at the early-bird discount price.

The thing I found with scribe is that it struggles with multiple keyword phrases as it simply does not recognize them therefore telling you that your page is not optimized when in fact it is.

Now for the important stuff….Blade Runner, yes, your post takes me back to a better day. Now I am going to have to take some time and watch it again.

Awesome Analogy!

Thanks

Another factor is that really good, unique, authoritative content is going to be very rich in a variety of keywords and synonyms that should draw in traffic from a bunch of “long-tail” searches, and not just one primary keyword search. So how you “theme” your content can also be important. Dr. Andy Williams and Michael Campbell have an interesting perspective on this that’s worth looking at.

SEO is a big issue and on-page factors are often just the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes it’s enough to optimize the elements that Scribe identifies, sometimes it isn’t.

Happy St. Pat’s to you as well!

I have found Scribe both helpful and frustrating. And a tad tantalizing. Helpful in making me do the title tag + description stuff which someone else had previously told me about but I had not been doing consistently. Helpful in getting me to think about keyword placement.

Frustrating because, in line with some of your comments, I want to know how the content measures up on keywords *I* want to use, not have Rachael decide what keywords I *should* be using (or, as you suggest, both would be ok).

Tantalizing because I thought images in posts were supposed to be good for search. I heard Web Analytics wizard Avinash Kaushik on that a couple of years ago and have been taking trouble to include images since. Not true? But if true, why no indication/ranking with Scribe (oh, “scribe” – is that it?)?

Anyway, happy St Pat’s Day from another part of the green diaspora (Australia)!