Stallion Theme Features : There are WordPress plugins that turn WordPress into an ecommerce store, some

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There are WordPress plugins that turn WordPress into an ecommerce store, some as simple as what I’m using to sell Stallion (basically a PayPal/Clickbank button and a bit of database info) and others that are fully fledged stores. I looked at one that created a store a couple of years ago as a possible way to make a thin affiliate store appear like a real ecommerce store, but decided against it, too much hassle for affiliate content, but looked interesting though.

If I ever get back into selling products (used to about 9 years ago) I’d create an SEO’d version of one of the current WordPress shopping cart plugins, no need to reinvent the wheel

With regards the Stallion SEO Super Comments plugin would be good to add the ability for visitors to comment directly from the SEO Super Comments pages. I’d like to incorporate Facebook connect and similar, BUT from what I’ve seen when you add Facebook like features the content is on Facebook not our sites, which is not good SEO wise.

Did you take a look at any of the comment plugins that add spell checkers etc..? I hate to make a comment without spell checking first and use the Google built in browser spell checker, I think you’ll find few commenter’s worry too much about grammar/spelling and if you tried to make an issue of it you could put some off commenting. The harder it is for someone to make a one off comment less likely they’ll comment in my opinion. You can’t get much simpler with WordPress than a fake name, fake email address and the comment text to make a comment

Appreciate the ideas and feedback.

Have been looking at social networking buttons etc… this one looks interesting http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks/ Has a lot of social network buttons and might not damage SEO. Most of the social network plugins don’t take SEO into account, they’ll use text links with nofollow to some of the social network buttons. Sexybookmarks plugin uses text links, but the code is custom using str_href instead of href, which MAY mean they aren’t counted as links (I’m not sure). Not looked in detail yet, but think they are using javascript to change the custom link code to normal link code using javascript (like I use with Stallion Cloak Affiliate Links).

As I’m not sure if a href format str_href will be treated as a text link (it shouldn’t be, but maybe the remain link code will count as a broken link), when I get the time going to look at the code and see if I can easily remove the a part like I’ve used with the Stallion cloaking script so it will definitely have no SEO impact.

Ignoring SEO the Sexybookmarks plugin is the sort of social networking feature I’ve been looking for, if it causes no SEO damage I’ll be using it probably

I’ve added Google +1 button to Stallion 6.1 and will be able to have the links at the top or bottom of the content rather than just the bottom. Would rather use a standalone plugin like Sexybookmarks as there’s more features, but it has to be SEO friendly (neutral).

David

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