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WordPress Search Engine Optimization- Second Edition

You're reading from  WordPress Search Engine Optimization- Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785887642
Pages 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

WordPress Search Engine Optimization Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started – SEO Basics 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 WordPress SEO Plugins Other SEO Resources Index

Creating perfectly-sized title tags


To craft perfectly-sized title tags, use any one of dozens of character-counter websites like lettercount.com (http://www.lettercount.com/) or wordcountertool.com (http://wordcountertool.com/). These tools are also helpful for crafting meta tags, twitter posts, and any text snippet where character length is restricted.

Your brand or company name almost never belongs in the first few words of a title tag if you are trying to rank for keywords. This is a common error that do-it-yourself webmasters and unskilled web designers make. Sure, you want to rank for your own business name, but you can achieve that by placing your business name in a less valuable location than the prime position within the title tag. Just having your business name in the body text of your pages or in the meta description tag will cause you to rank for your business name, not to mention the associative power that a Google Plus business page will generate for your website.

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