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WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization

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WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization

Overview of this book

WordPress is a powerful platform for creating feature-rich and attractive websites and blogs; but with a little extra tweaking and effort your WordPress site can dominate the search engines and bring thousands of new customers to your blog or business. WordPress3.0 Search Engine Optimization will show you the secrets that professional SEO companies use to take websites to the top of search results and proliferate their business. You'll be able to take your WordPress blog/site to the next level, as well as brush aside even the stiffest competition with this book in hand. We'll begin with a typical WordPress installation and with a variety of simple techniques, turn it into a powerful website that search engines will reward with high rankings. We'll go further: with advanced plug-ins we'll connect your WordPress site to popular social media sites and expand the reach of your site to bring more visitors. You'll learn about dozens of free online tools to accomplish everything from keyword research to monitoring your ranking progress. WordPress is a great start for building search-friendly sites. However, with the tools in this book, you'll get your website/blog noticed by numerous new users/customers or your target audience.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Writing effective titles and headlines


When writing for search engine optimization, the title is one of the most important elements of your copy. Titles may not be long, but they have two very important jobs to do. The first thing a good title does is tell the search engines what your article is about. This helps ensure that your page will be listed in the search engine results when someone tries to find the information contained in your article.

For example, let's say you are trying to sell border collie puppies. You have a page on your website telling about the puppies you have for sale, but the title of this page is "Border Collie Puppies." That might seem like a great title, but it's not specific enough. People who are searching for border collie puppies online could be looking for information about caring for or training those puppies. On the other hand, when someone searches "Border Collie Puppies for Sale," your content is exactly what they're looking for but your title isn't. In this...