SMFPacks SEO Pro Mod v1.1

Today is another great day at SMFPacks.com! We're releasing the v1.1 of the powerful SEO mod for SMF, the SMFPacks SEO Pro Mod. In this new version we've included amazing features that you're going to just love, if you're wondering how we did it, well adding new features and, specially, enhancing the old ones.

NEW: SEO Cloud

This new feature is going to nicely boost SEO in your community, this cloud is created with the keywords that people used in all the major search engines (by default includes Google, Yahoo, Bing, Lycos, AOL and Ask) to find your website, this cloud includes a lot of options that I'm going to explain later, but first how this helps?



So when a new search engines goes to that page it's going to find an exact match for that words, increasing webpage ranking on that term, keeping you at the top of the lists. This cloud can be enabled in Topics, Boards and Forum Index, hits are stored for each query to show them in bigger size, you can add banned words, group words in queries and some other things, this cloud works great and the best of all is that no files are modified to include it.

ENHANCED: Sitemap

There were some issues with the basic format of the sitemap, all of 'em were fixed, but additionally some changes had been done, a new algorithm is used to get the priority of topics giving google better tools to spider your website based on the information available in your sitemap.

In addition to that, the format of the XML one has been re-done, a big change was done to allow humans to read it and use it as they want, in the past you had all the XML Code, now you've a much prettier version of that content, as a picture worth more than a thousand words, here's a screenshot of the new XML Sitemap for Humans:

ENHANCED: Google Analytics Integration

Integration with Google Analytics was quite basic, specially in how you grabbed data from it, only a view based in month and year was possible, now this has been enhanced in many ways:

Now you can have a view of an specific day, showing the visits per hour in that specific day of the year, additionally a new panel has been added to search a lot of other information: Operative System, Screen Resolution, Keywords, Web Referrers and Web Browsers of your visitors based on a date selected (or a range) to know which are the most popular of 'em in your website.

It's possible to anonymize the IP's using the Google Analytics API from your SEO Admin Panel, a highly requested feature which should be useful, specially for German users.

ENHANCED: Social Bookmarks

Social Bookmarks are great ways to be connected, and to get your community known, that's why we've made some changes to 'em, to be less intrusive for users when they aren't using them. This was accomplished in both, Share Topic and Share Post options, for the Share Topic box a new collapse button has been added, allowing users to shrink or expand it in order to use it where they want, the status of that box is stored for each member so it won't be necessary to change it on each load.

For the Share Post option, we've added a new box where all this links are shown without taking the attention of the post, it can be accessed clicking on it and it can be hide doing the same thing, I've added a picture to show how it works: