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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

Link building by commenting on blogs and forums


Commenting on blogs and posting on forums are two good ways to get backlinks to your website, but you need to be careful to adhere to the proper etiquette. If you start spamming blogs and forums with worthless comments, it won't get you anywhere because most of these sites are moderated and your comment will be deleted, along with your link.

Blog commenting

Blog commenting is a popular strategy for link building, but there is some debate in the SEO community about whether links from nofollow blogs are counted or not. If you want to be sure that your link carries weight, then you need to find dofollow blogs for blog commenting. The easiest way to do this is to look for telltale footprints that are frequently found on dofollow blogs.

An example of this is the U Comment I Follow logo. Website owners who display this image on their site are making it known that they have modified their sites to use dofollow links in the comments. The easiest way to...