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WordPress Search Engine Optimization- Second Edition

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WordPress Search Engine Optimization- Second Edition

Overview of this book

WordPress is a powerful platform for creating feature-rich and attractive websites but, with a little extra tweaking and effort, your WordPress site can dominate search engines and bring thousands of new customers to your business. WordPress Search Engine Optimization will show you the secrets that professional SEO companies use to take websites to the top of search results. You'll take your WordPress site to the next level; you'll brush aside even the stiffest competition with the advanced tutorials in this book.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WordPress Search Engine Optimization Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Checking your inbound link count with Bing Webmaster


Bing Webmaster allows you to get information about backlinks, crawl errors, and search traffic to your websites. In order to get the maximum value from this tool, you'll need to authenticate each of your websites to prove that you own them. To get started, go to https://www.bing.com/webmaster/ and sign up with your Microsoft account. As a part of the sign up process, you'll get a HTML file that you'll install in the root directory of your WordPress installation. This file validates that you are the owner of the website and entitled to see the data that Bing collects.

One core use for Bing Webmaster is that it presents a highly accurate picture of one's inbound link counts. If you recall, Google does not present accurate inbound link counts to users. Thus, Bing Webmaster is the most authoritative picture from a search engine that you'll have of how many backlinks your site enjoys.

To see your inbound links, simply log in and navigate to the...