It recently came to my attention that this blog (I operate quite a few), a demo blog I might add, was succeeding too quickly. Yes, it seems it can happen - courtesy of the search engines, a simple, virtually unattended demo blog, is ranking too well.

SEO MOney is running the Wordpress SEO/SEM bundle, based on Wordpress, with modifications designed to enhance its performance in terms of SEO, and in terms of content  management. One of the features it includes is content aggregation, allowing me to put the thing on autopilot, with fine tuning to eliminate any dross that might creep into otherwise useful & informative feeds..

This bundle includes Wordpress, and a number of plugins designed to make life easier when setting up. Some of these plugins had to be modified, while the theme circulated with this bundle has also seen some customization.

MODIFICATIONS

Theme
The theme title (index.php) was modified to include the seoplugin title function which replaced the existing WP title functions. Objective was a SEO friendly title.

The single post template (single.php) was modified to include a call to the sociable function wp_sociable(), a source link was also added to the feature pane for posts that originate offsite (feeds), and a call to the ultimate tag warrior tag cloud function UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical() was added.