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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

Going viral with the Share on Facebook plugin (and several others)


To extend your WordPress' site functionality a bit further, you'll want to consider the Share on Facebook plugin (previously called "Add to Facebook"). Unlike the FacePress II plugin, Share on Facebook enables your readers to quickly and easily post a link your content to their Facebook profiles.

Share on Facebook inserts a Share on Facebook button to the end of your posts. When a reader clicks on this button, a link to your WordPress content is posted to the reader's Facebook profile. If that reader has 500 Facebook friends, then those 500 friends will each see the link. The benefit of this is obvious: you potentially extend your readership by hundreds or thousands of viewers.

Tip

Share on Facebook isn't the only plugin that offers the same functionality. Several other plugins accomplish the same task such as Post-to-Facebook, the Facebook Share button (this is highly popular and is used on Mashable.com and ESPN.com), and Add...