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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

Open in New Window


The Open in New Window plugin uses JavaScript to make all of the external links on your website open in a new window. Having your outgoing links open in a new window leaves your website open to visitors—in theory, visitors are more likely to remain within your site if your site remains open in their browser. This plugin allows you to insert links without needing to set the target manually for outbound links. It is especially useful if you use a plugin to facilitate the submission of guest posts to your website, because you won't have to add the target tag to each of the links in these articles. Because this plugin uses JavaScript, it does not work on links that are located inside of an iframe tag. You can download the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/open-in-new-window-plugin/.