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I have virtually no direct experience with Joomla and Drupal, but your feedback pretty much confirms my inclination to move in that direction to meet the goals of some upcoming projects.

All-in-One SEO seems to be popular on WP. Any thoughts on how it compare to SEO by Yoast?

Thanks Robert (and Rob). This is helpful stuff.

There seem to be quite a few template, framework, and theme options for building a site optimized for search.

I'm currently looking at Socrates and Genesis premium themes for Wordpress. Does anyone have experience or suggestions on these resources?

Yep, with good meta descriptions traffic will hit 88mph in no time.

Wix offers an inexpensive, user friendly platform for building websites. Most of the site is flash, but Wix claims to be SEO friendly. I'm all ears for your feedback and experience with Wix.

Traffic is pretty quantifiable, but conversion perhaps less so. What good are strong SERP's if users aren't clicking through to your site and converting. Well written meta descriptions are an important part of the funnel, and what is the cost of creating them? Time?

Thanks Keri - I do have the campaign actively running and tracked here in SEOmoz, and regularly check the SERPs in scroogle.org. the URL is www.getoverabrokenheart.org (cheesy, I know), with the three key phrases:

"get over a broken heart, getting over a broken heart, getting over broken heart"

The blog is set up to act as an affiliate arm in a sales funnel for an online product.

Hope that helps. Any rank performance information and suggestions would be great.

Thanks again!

I have a blog that's gone from not indexed, to indexed and ranked around 85 on 3 target key phrases. With a bit of SEO the blog jumped to around 11th on those 3 key phases in a week or so. Now, the following week, it has bombed back to 76th. Why the dramatic fluctuations?

Looking to add Analytics tracking for a specific campaign that is a separate, secondary account from my primary GA account.