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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

Encouraging Twitter posts and the Tweet This plugin

Much in the same way we encourage the sharing of images by including social media sharing buttons, we can also encourage Twitter activity by inviting visitors to tweet our pages and posts.

There are several tools and plugins available that can enable you to either automatically or semi-automatically push your WordPress blog posts to your Twitter feed. Again, most modern WordPress templates and frameworks have Twitter sharing buttons built in. If you want a more customized and powerful solution, one of the most full-featured and popular plugins is the Tweet This plugin. It inserts a very prominent Tweet This link on your Posts, so that readers can quickly and easily share your content via their Twitter feeds, which you can see in the following screenshot:

Encouraging Twitter posts and the Tweet This plugin

The power of Tweet This lies in the prominence of the sharing button. You are more likely to earn tweets with a prominent call to action, although; see the warning just below about overdoing...

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