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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

How to measure your inbound links


As a webmaster engaged in the process of optimization and link building, you'll want to measure and track your link building efforts. Keep in mind that you won't get a link every time you request one. Not only that, but if the page upon which you secure a link is not indexed by search engines, then you won't get any traffic or ranking power from that link. Some pages will be indexed by one search engine and not others, so your inbound link counts in any particular search engine will differ from all the others. In the past years, Google indexed more pages than other search engines, but that has changed since the mid-tier search engines Yahoo! and Bing began to crawl the web more deeply.

You'll use several methods to measure your inbound links. A great source is the search engines themselves. There is also specialized software for the purpose of measuring and evaluating links.

Measuring inbound links with Bing Webmaster

The quickest and easiest way to get a simple...

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