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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

Summary


We covered a wide range of technical optimization topics in this chapter. Hopefully, we've illuminated some of the mystery of search optimization and rankings. We have covered a lot of material, and many of these topics are certainly worthy of further study.

We began by learning how to craft a keyword-rich domain name without resorting to the corrupt and expensive secondary market for domain names. We learned how to manipulate WordPress' permalink structure for maximum benefit.

We dug deep into page titles, title tags, navigation anchor text, and meta tags. We learned how to apply sound methodologies of keyword density to our body copy. We also learned some advanced techniques to modify WordPress themes to deliver even greater SEO power. We built a bullet-proof robots.txt file to control WordPress' pesky duplicate pages and learned how to employ both the Google Webmaster Tool and XML sitemaps to increase spider penetration on your site.

In the next chapter, we'll learn how to craft...