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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

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin


As the title suggests, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is one of several related posts plugins available for WordPress. YARPP has emerged as the most effective and widely used of this family of plugins. YARPP analyzes the categories and tags of your Posts and automatically generates a list of related Posts at the end of each of your blog entries once you have the plugin installed and set up. Including a set of related Posts tends to keep visitors on your site longer and more fully engaged with your content.

You can set a threshold for the similarity level so that the plugin will not display any Posts unless you meet the minimum level of relatedness that you require. You can also set the plugin to ignore posts that are in certain categories or those with specific tags when determining which posts to display. YARPP is available for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/.

The image below shows the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin at work: it generates an automatic list of related Posts and displays the list at the end of each blog entry.

As shown in the the screenshot, the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin generates an automatic list of related Posts and displays the list at the end of each blog entry.