This chart will help you quickly visualize the popularity of “All In One SEO Pack” plug-in in the world of WordPress bloggers.
This SEO plug-in, that can help your WordPress blog rank better in Google, has been downloaded more number of times than any of other 2.3k WordPress plug-ins on the Internet according to wordpress.org.
It is perfectly compatible with the current release of WordPress but the sad news is that the author of this plugin (uberdose) has decided to abandon his baby and will no longer release new updates in future.
There are no reasons specified except this brief message - “This plugin is no longer supported or maintained.”
Maybe “uberdose” is busy with other projects but he should consider handing over the reigns to another developer in the WordPress community so that this great plugin maintain its rank in the popularity charts. Thanks Donna.
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Reader Comments
Total downloads till date : 382,992 lets hope even if 3,00,000 people pay him 10$ yearly fees for support, updates etc he can get around 3 million$ and may that amount would make him support this plugin :) There are numerous ideas for getting things done, but the point stops at implementation!
Written by Amit Bhawani on 06.09.08
I would have no issues with helping out with maintaining the plugin :) providing the other does not mind it.
Written by Keith Dsouza on 06.09.08
If it’s so popular, i guess someone will take over the development.
Written by Robin on 06.09.08
One of the possible high # of downloads for this plugin is that it used to get updated like every 2 days. Not that that’s a bad thing.
Written by Sridhar Katakam on 06.09.08
I am an SEO expert. I have read entire code. It’s covering just 20% of core SEO. how about the rest?
Written by Vicky on 06.09.08
If the plugin is under GPL or any other open source license then anyone can take over & continue development on it! Though on the plugin page I don’t see any info about its license!
Written by Amit Gupta on 06.10.08
It’s very sad news and we should start thinking about raising donation to him..I’m getting around 65% traffic to my blog from google and a big thumbs goes to this plugin…
Written by Roshan Bhattarai on 06.11.08
@Vicky
I thought self-proclaimed SEO experts had better things to do than run Bolly sites.
About the rest 80 %, I am working on a plugin that will automatically modify your WP blog’s internal linking structure based on SE traffic; request, follow up and get external links and send thanyou mails; it even signs up uing its advanced AI in Digg and Reddit and in 2 weeks becomes a top user there and uses the account to promote the blog! Just wait for it, Bollywood sites can really have fun with it.
PS. The plugin is also loved by Matt Cutts’ cat. Imagine!
Written by Matt on 06.11.08
That’s a very sad and bad news. I hope that udberdose will find a good manager of virtual properties to manage properly his wonderful virtual assets he has been created until now.
Written by adam on 06.12.08
Thanks to madmouse for adopting the plugin :D
Written by Hussein on 06.28.08
Matt,
If you have a mailing add me or what it the URL of your project for this new SEO-Plugin?
Written by Free Money on 07.01.08
@Matt
I agree with Vicky.
Google biggest secret for top ranking is time spent on web site. How can you improve to, with this plugin?
Does it improves usability or HCI? SEO is short term to get users, but usability is long term to retain user…
Written by Raj on 07.17.08