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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

Improving rankings with optimized images


Optimizing your images can bring ranking and traffic in two ways. First, in the traditional way, by improving the ranking of the page upon which the image appears. Second, you can bring visitors who use an image-specific search platform like Google Images (http://images.google.com) or Bing Images (http://bing.com/images). Keep in mind that users who visit your site through image search may not have nearly the same commercial intent as users who visit through a text search query—unless of course your business is selling images.

Image optimization does not carry much ranking power—it's a minor adjustment to a web page that delivers a boost, but does not have enough power to rank for anything competitive on its own. But, to repeat the mantra from Chapter 1, Getting Started – SEO Basics, when all on-page optimization techniques, even lower-weight techniques, are all used collectively—the power can be staggering.

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