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WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization

You're reading from   WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization Getting your WordPress site well positioned on Google and Bing is a fine art that this guide covers brilliantly. From SEO basics to white-hat tips and tricks, you’ll learn to give your site the competitive edge.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199003
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started: SEO Basics 2. Customizing WordPress Settings for SEO FREE CHAPTER 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 the Black Hat Techniques 9. Avoiding SEO Mistakes 10. Testing Your Site and Monitoring Your Progress WordPress SEO Plugins Other SEO Resources Index

Optimizing with the XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress


A sitemap is a page on your website that lists all of the pages on the site, usually in a hierarchical fashion. Having a sitemap on your website makes it easier for the major search engines to find all the pages in your site. An XML sitemap is a sitemap that is generated using the XML coding language. The XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress allows you to easily add an XML sitemap to your WordPress site.

The XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress was developed by Semiologic and can be downloaded for free from their website at: http://www.semiologic.com/software/xml-sitemaps/.

Once you have downloaded the plugin file, you install it just as you would with any other WordPress plugin. First, sign in to the admin area of your site and then click on Add New under Plugins on the left side of your dashboard. On the next page, click on Upload. It is at the top of the page under the header. Next, browse to where you saved the plugin file and click on Install...

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