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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

About the Reviewers

Patrick Rushton is a British designer / developer living and working in the Netherlands. He works as Senior Interaction Designer at Amsterdam-based digital agency LBi Lost Boys where he creates brand-building digital experiences that combine rich interactivity, motion graphics, and gameplay.

He has contributed to other Packt publications as technical reviewer for Papervision 3D Essentials and WordPress with Flash 10.x Cookbook.

Patrick blogs about UX, web design, 3D and interactive television on his website http://www.patrickrushton.com

Srikanth A.D. is a Web Developer & SEO Consultant. He is passionate about developing and optimizing websites for better search engine visibility and user experience. Sharing interesting tools and services pertaining to web development and SEO across technology blogs is one of his active hobbies.

He has written articles for some of the popular blogs such as MakeUseOf, TheNextWeb, QuickOnlineTips, Lost in Technology, 1stWebDesigner, and others.

Blog: http://www.readaboutseo.com

Sonia Munoz Hoyos is a web programmer in Valencia, Spain. She has completed her upper computer systems management and has now finished studying the upper development of computer applications where is learning the Java programming language and PL/SQL. She has worked with tools such as PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, Codeigniter, Joomla!, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Oracle, and PL/SQL, but is willing to learn new programming languages.

After completing her studies, she would like to start her own web development business.