WordPress Search Engine Optimization（Second Edition）
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WordPress Search Engine Optimization Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files eBooks discount offers and more
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Getting Started – SEO Basics
Introducing SEO
Improving your rank on all search engines
Exploring the changing nature of search engines
Understanding a search engine's inner workings
Preparing the index
Querying the index
Exploring on-page search ranking factors
Weighing search factors
Understanding the search algorithm
Ranking factor – body content
Serious ranking power – title tags and meta tags
Making perfect title tags
Using heading tags (h1 h2 h3)
Optimizing code quality and load speed
Menus internal navigation and link structure
Image filenames and alt tags
Text attributes – bold italics and underline
Ranking factor – high page count
Fodder for search engines – fresh content
Using the subtle power of outbound links
Understanding off-page ranking factors
Avoiding over-optimization
Converting visitors to customers – the third spoke of SEO
Summary
Chapter 2. Optimizing WordPress for SEO
Setting goals for your business and website and getting inspiration
Knowing what WordPress already does for your SEO
Creating reliable and text-based navigation
Engaging visitors with built-in collaboration contribution and community building
Understanding what WordPress doesn't do for your SEO
Summary
Chapter 3. Researching and Working with Keywords
Building your site's foundation with keyword research
Understanding relevance and the effect of short tail and long tail keywords
Spotting keyword popularity patterns with Google Trends
Identifying and developing your initial keyword profile
Building keyword lists with common qualifiers
Employing the human touch in keyword research
Learning how customers engage in local search
Prioritizing keywords
Finding new keywords with Google AdWords
Summary
Chapter 4. Understanding Technical Optimization
Choosing a keyword-rich domain name
Buying/acquiring domain names
Creating an effective WordPress permalink structure
Highly customized permalinks
Optimizing your Page/Post titles and title tags
Crafting title tags
Creating perfectly-sized title tags
Crafting Page/Post titles
Optimizing meta tags
Configuring WordPress to generate meta descriptions
Best practices for meta descriptions
A dead HTML element – meta keyword tags
Optimizing your body content
Optimizing heading tags
Optimizing WordPress templates
Improving rankings with optimized images
The ultimate WordPress robots.txt file
Optimizing with the XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress
SEO power tool – Google Webmasters
Summary
Chapter 5. Creating Optimized and Engaging Content
Engaging visitors with your content
Writing effective titles and headlines
Transcending bland keyword-rich titles
Organizing your content with WordPress tags
Creating keyword-aware content
Keeping it natural
Avoiding automated content plugins
Writing for your audience
Providing quality information
Writing to get results
Developing your writing style
Narrative styles
Structuring your content using taxonomy and hierarchy
Managing your categories with plugins
Hiring a writer
Summary
Chapter 6. Link Building
Understanding the importance of backlinks
Distinguishing between dofollow and nofollow links
Authority links – what they are and why you want them
Link anchor text
How to measure your inbound links
Securing links through link directories
Building links with infographics
Link building by commenting on blogs and forums
Building links through direct link requests
Summary
Chapter 7. Using Social Media
What is a search engine?
Going viral with social media
Using LinkedIn to promote your business or website
Microblogging with Twitter for business
Using social bookmarking sites to promote your business
Choosing a social bookmarking site
Leveraging Facebook for a business or blog
Encouraging sharing on Pinterest and photo sharing sites
Encouraging Twitter posts and the Tweet This plugin
Taking social media too far
Promoting your business or blog with YouTube
Summary
Chapter 8. Avoiding Black Hat Techniques
Typical black hat techniques
Google Webmaster Guidelines
Diagnosing a Google ranking ban penalty or filter
Clearing a Google penalty
Avoiding black hat techniques and purveyors who promote them
Summary
Chapter 9. Avoiding SEO Mistakes
Pursuing the wrong keywords
Poor internal anchor text
Flash JavaScript image links and other non-readable content
Poor site architecture
Over-optimization
Jumping the gun and the sandbox
Using free hosted domains
Forgetting verification tools
Ignoring local directory listings
Summary
Chapter 10. Testing Your Site and Monitoring Your Progress
Google Analytics
Using Google Analytics
Google Webmasters/Search Console
Checking your website's code with a HTML Validator
Checking your inbound link count with Bing Webmaster
Monitoring ranking positions and movement with Rank Tracker
Monitoring backlinks with Majestic SEO
Summary
Appendix A. WordPress SEO Plugins
All in One SEO Pack
Yoast SEO
Gravity Forms Contact Form Mailer
Contact Form 7
Duplicate Post
Broken Link Checker
Google XML Sitemaps
Akismet
Wordfence
WP Super Cache
WPtouch
WooCommerce
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
FooBox HTML & Media Lightbox
Appendix B. Other SEO Resources
Online forums
Google's tools for website owners
Other helpful SEO tools
Index
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