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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

Managing your categories with plugins


You may find that you don't like the way your categories are displayed by default in WordPress—a common complaint. Perhaps, you want to hide certain categories, change the order in which they appear, or change the way they look when they are displayed on your blog. There are several plugins available that will help you display your categories exactly the way you want them to be shown. Here are a few that you might want to try, if you use the self-hosted version of WordPress.

Advanced Category Excluder

The Advanced Category Excluder plugin allows you to hide selected categories from certain parts of your site while still displaying them on others. If you don't want to display the top-level categories for other animals once your visitor has clicked on Dogs, you can use this plugin to do that. This can also help with SEO because excluding these links, which have anchor text listing other animals, can make your dog pages appear more focused on dogs. You can...

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