BlogSense 9 Released – Wooooooooo – Details Inside

By Hudson Atwell On April 22, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Updates

I’m very excited to announce this latest release of BlogSense. We’ve added some much needed core improvements that will enhance our speed and execution when making modifications on our already-running blogs… and we’ve also added some new things too.

Here’s what’s new inside BlogSense 9:

GLOBAL EDITING (editing en masse)

Are you looking to edit many campaigns at once but are loathing to open 25+ campaigns one by one? We now have a very precise global editing section where we can pinpoint campaigns and make modifications on individual settings. I’ve already had the opportunity to put this feature to use on a handful of my blogs. It’s really handy.

Credit for this one goes out to Terrence (PubDirLtd), who keeps the pressure on, fighting and lobbying in the name of BlogSense’s improvement.

DRAFT NOTIFICATION IMPROVEMENT (KEYWORD DENSITY REPORTS)

We’ve made it so that if draft notifications are turned on, that setting a post into the ‘pending review’ status will trigger an email report as well.

We’ve also added an automated keyword density report to the end of each draft notification, displaying the 3 word phrases, 2 word phrases, and single word occurrences and listing their # of occurrences and density.

Special thanks to Ralf (Ralf Skirr) who put down the request for this feature and explained how it might be beneficial to users who are filtering content for SEO quality, and also explaining how this will help in detecting the potent keywords for possible title restructuring and future SEO promotion.

CAMPAIGN AUTHOR SETTINGS

[RSS campaigns] – We have a new author option. We can select ‘Original Author – Domain name’ to include a ‘ – domain.com’ after there detected author’s name… ‘domain.com’ will be replace with the domain of whatever source the campaign is pulling content from.

[All campaigns] – We have have the option to select ‘Random Author’, which will randomly select an author id from the authors in the WordPress database.

RSS COMMENT SCRAPING

Here’s a bone for you. RSS comment scraping. This new feature can definitely make a grey area even greyer. Never-the-less this feature has it’s proper place within BlogSense. Please use responsibly…. Scrape parameters are setup manually. Preview mode will show you’re success.

BLOGSENSE CORE TEMPLATES & SHORTCODES

Added ability to modify the Youtube object-embed template. This will help control the width and height of video renders.
Redesigned the interface of the template editing section. Changed name from ‘Post Templates’ to ‘Core Templates’. It’s very easy to navigate and edit templates now. Now our templateing system truly is state of the art.
By request, added the ability to have exclude keywords in theYoutube shortcode. This will help prevent sourcing of unwanted videos.

LASTLY

For the RSS module, added a filter to prevent posting content when the content link is found to be the same blog as the BlogSense installation. I noticed that on some of my sites where I use Google Alerts, my indexed content for that blog was being included in the alert and a cycle of duplicate content was ensuing. This fix takes care of this potential issue.
Removed the link cloaking features of BlogSense. I recommend using WP Traffic Tools to cloak your links. It permits on/off toggling where BlogSense’s cloaked links were permanent…. which in my opinion is not good. This loss will not affect your already cloaked links, but BlogSense will no longer cloak links internally.

Alright BlogSense!

I sent this email to all my lists, so if you are not a BlogSense user then please do not unsubscribe or you could take yourself out of the update loop for the product you are subscribed to. Deviant I know.

As always, thank you for being a part of the BlogSense Community.

I hope you find some joy in this latest release.

Report to the forums for bugs.

Hudson Atwell

Hatnohat Development Super

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