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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

Pursuing the wrong keywords


Keyword research lies at the foundation of all search marketing efforts. As webmasters, we must always be mindful of what users are searching for, in what relative volumes, and whether those keywords are relevant. WordPress will not research keywords for you. You need to perform thorough and sound keyword research to make sure you can grab the relevant traffic that ties web searchers with your content. The error of pursuing the wrong keywords can infect the earliest stages of your web marketing plan if you choose a poor domain name based upon a misconception about what customers are searching for.

Perhaps the most common keyword-related mistakes come with webmasters and business owners that make instinctual guesses at keyword volumes. SEO professionals know that the truth is in the keyword data, not in the instinctual guess made by a business owner. The high-volume, high-relevance terms are where you'll find hidden profits, so that's where your efforts need to...