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WordPress Search Engine Optimization- Second Edition

You're reading from   WordPress Search Engine Optimization- Second Edition A complete guide to dominating search engines with your WordPress site

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785887642
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started – SEO Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Optimizing WordPress for SEO 3. Researching and Working with Keywords 4. Understanding Technical Optimization 5. Creating Optimized and Engaging Content 6. Link Building 7. Using Social Media 8. Avoiding Black Hat Techniques 9. Avoiding SEO Mistakes 10. Testing Your Site and Monitoring Your Progress A. WordPress SEO Plugins B. Other SEO Resources Index

Poor internal anchor text

As we have learned, the anchor text that forms a part of a link is an important ranking element for the destination page. The anchor text serves as a signpost to the search engines as to the content and subject of the destination. This principle applies with respect to both external links and internal links.

Links with anchor text such as Click here, Go home, and Read More are missed opportunities. The search engines index this anchor text and attempt to divine the content of the destination page.

You can see this principle at work, by performing a Google search for the phrase Click here. The number three result is the download page for Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The reason? Over 935 million web pages have linked to the Acrobat Reader download page and some have used the non-descriptive anchor text Click here. Google's algorithm works properly here, but can only return the result based on what it reads.

In your web marketing efforts, avoid this result by simply...

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