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Automating Facebook updates with FacePress II
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Going viral with the Share on Facebook plugin (and several others)
217
Automating twitter posts with Tweet This
218
Promoting your business or blog with YouTube
218
Using YouTube as a hosting and delivery platform
219
Using video delivery alternatives to embedded YouTube video
221
Employing YouTube as a search engine
222
Promoting products and services on YouTube
223
Summary
224
Chapter 8: Avoiding the Black Hat Techniques
225
Typical black hat techniques
226
Hidden text on web pages
226
Spider detection, cloaking, redirection, and doorway pages
226
Linking to bad neighborhoods and link farms
227
Google Webmaster Guidelines
228
Google Webmaster Guidelines in a nutshell
228
When Google detects violations of its guidelines
229
Diagnosing a Google ranking ban, penalty, or filter
230
Understanding a Google ban
231
Diagnosing a total or partial ban
231
PageRank adjustment/PageRank penalty
233
Diagnosing a PageRank penalty
233
The -950 ranking penalty
236
How to diagnose a -950 ranking penalty
236
The -30/-40 ranking penalty
236
Diagnosing a -30/-40 penalty
236
False positives that aren't penalties
237
Clearing a Google penalty
237
Abandoning your existing domain and starting over
238
Requesting reconsideration following a Google penalty
239
Avoiding black hat techniques and purveyors who promote them
241
The standard black hat scam: Link exchange
242
The standard black hat scam: Website submission service
242
The standard black hat scam: Offshore link building
243
The standard black hat scam: Autoblogging
243
Summary
244
Chapter 9: Avoiding SEO Mistakes
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Pursuing the wrong keywords
246
Poor internal anchor text
247
Flash, JavaScript, image links, and other non-readable content
248
Poor site architecture
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Expert site architecture with manual links and PageRank sculpting
251
Over-optimizing to improve ranking
253
Over-optimizing of on-page factors: Guidelines
253
Over-optimizing of inbound links: Guidelines
254
Jumping the gun
255
Using free hosted domains
256
Forgetting verification tools
256
Ignoring local directory listings
257
Always assigning as many categories as possible
257
Getting reviews
257
Uploading pictures
258
Completing all optional fields
258
Making multiple entries for multiple locations
258
Writing a compelling business description with keywords
258
Paying for clicks when you rank organically
259
Leaving stray pages in Google's index
260
Failing to produce fresh new content
261
Summary
261
Chapter 10: Testing Your Site and Monitoring Your Progress
263
Google Analytics
264
Setting up Google Analytics for your website
264
Using Google Analytics
266
Google Webmaster Tools
269
Checking your website's code with an HTML Validator
270
Checking your inbound link count with Yahoo! Site Explorer
272
Monitoring ranking positions and movement with Rank Tracker
274
Monitoring backlinks with majestic SEO
277
Summary
279
Appendix A: WordPress SEO Plugins
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All in One SEO Pack
281
Dagon Design Form Mailer
282
Duplicate Post
282
Broken Link Checker
283
Automatic SEO Links
284
Google XML Sitemaps
284
HeadSpace2 SEO
284
Robots Meta
285
SEO Blogroll
285
SEO Smart Links
285
Open in New Window
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Dean's Permalinks Migration
286
SEO Friendly Images
286
I Love Social Bookmarking
286
WP Super Cache
286
SEO slugs
287
Future Posts Calendar
287
Smart 404
287
WPtouch
288
Contact Form 7
288
Smart YouTube
288
WP e-Commerce
288
Wickett Twitter Widget
289
Share and Follow
290
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
290
Facebook like button
291
Quick AdSense
292
Appendix B: Other SEO Resources
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Online forums
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Warrior Forum
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Digital Point forum
294
The Keyword Academy
295
SEO Chat forums
295
SEO.com forums
295
Google Webmaster Tools
296
Google AdSense
296
Google AdWords
296
Google Alerts
296
Google Merchant Center
297
Google Checkout
298
Other helpful SEO tools
298
Copyscape
299
Pingdom Site Speed Checker
299
HubSpot's Website Grader
299
Flippa
300
SEOmoz
300
Search Engine Journal
301
Search Engine Roundtable
301
Blogging Labs
301
ProBlogger
302
WebProNews
302
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David Mihm's Local Search Ranking Factors
302
My Blog Guest
302
Keyword Strategy
303
Index
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Preface
1
Chapter 1: Getting Started: SEO Basics
7
Introducing SEO
7
Improving your rank on all search engines
9
Exploring the changing nature of search engines
10
Understanding a search engine's inner working
11
Preparing the index
11
Querying the index
12
Exploring on-page search ranking factors
12
Weighing search factors
13
Understanding the search algorithm
14
Ranking factor: body content
14
Serious ranking power: title tags and meta tags
15
Using heading tags (h1, h2, h3)
18
Optimizing code quality and load speed
19
Menus, internal navigation, and link structure
20
Image filenames and alt tags
22
Text attributes: bold, italics, and underline
22
Ranking factor: high page count
22
Fodder for search engines: fresh content
24
Using the subtle power of outbound links
25
Understanding off-page ranking factors
26
Links are the power
26
Creating natural links
26
Avoiding over-optimization
27
Converting visitors to customers: the third spoke of SEO
27
Creating conversion-based websites
29
Summary
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Chapter 2: Customizing WordPress Settings for SEO
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Setting goals for your business and website and getting inspiration
32
Analyzing your audience
32
Determining the goal of your website
33
Following the leaders
35
Gauging competition in the search market
36
Knowing what WordPress already does for your SEO
38
Understanding WordPress' economical architecture
39
Building large sites quickly with WordPress
40
Earning respect with search engines
40
Leveraging WordPress' blogging capabilities
41
Displaying RSS feeds
41
Finding your RSS feed
42
Promoting your RSS feed
42
Automatically creating descriptive URLs with WordPress permalinks
43
Creating reliable, text-based navigation
43
Engaging visitors with built-in collaboration, contribution, and community
building
45
Employing user roles to get your team involved
45
Improving ranking with user comments
46
Using update services
48
Understanding what WordPress doesn't do for your SEO
48
Tackling duplicate content within WordPress
48
Overcoming landing page customization limitations
50
Understanding limitations on page-by-page navigation
51
Summary
52
Chapter 3: Researching and Working with Keywords
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Building your site's foundation with keyword research
54
Understanding relevance and the effect of short-tail and
long tail keywords
55
Developing a powerful long tail search strategy
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Researching keyword search volume with online keyword tools
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Google's SKtool
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SEO Book's free keyword tool
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Google Insights
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Online keyword tool: Wordtracker's free keyword tool
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Identifying and developing your keywords
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Gathering keywords: Thinking about your customer's
(imperfect) intent
68
Generating keyword ideas with online tools
68
Generating alternative keyword ideas with Google Sets
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Generating alternative keywords with SEOTools Keyword
Suggestion Scraper and Google Suggest
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Building keyword lists with common qualifiers
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Analyzing customers' search behavior
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Building keyword lists with location names
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Learning how customers engage in local search
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Applying long tail theory to local search
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Following the people, following the money
75
Tuning and honing your keyword list
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Prioritizing keywords
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Building first, second, and third tier Keywords
77
Accounting for seasonal trends
78
Spotting seasonal keyword patterns with Google Trends
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Tuning your list: Negative keywords
80
Grouping keywords into families
81
Finding new keywords
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Eyeing the competition
83
Finding new keywords with Google Analytics
83
Finding new keywords With Google AdWords
85
Summary
87
Chapter 4: Understanding Technical Optimization
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Choosing a keyword-rich domain name
90
Buying/acquiring domain names
92
Hyphens and extra characters in domain names
92
Creating an effective permalink structure
94
Highly customized permalinks
95
Optimizing your Page/Post titles and title tags
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Page/Post titles processing in WordPress
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Crafting title tags
99
Crafting Page/Post titles
102
Configuring WordPress to generate meta descriptions
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Best practices for meta descriptions
104
Crafting meta descriptions
105
A dying HTML element: meta keyword tags
107
Optimizing your body content
108
Best practices for optimizing body content
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Keyword density in body content
110
Case Study: Keyword density test of master pages
110
Optimizing heading tags
112
Optimizing WordPress templates
113
Improving rankings with optimized images
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Inserting images and optimizing image properties in WordPress
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Manipulating image sizes to speed up website load times
120
The ultimate WordPress robots.txt file
121
Optimizing with the XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress
123
SEO power tool: Google Webmaster Central
125
Summary
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Chapter 5: Creating Optimized and Engaging Content
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Engaging visitors with your content
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Writing effective titles and headlines
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Using WordPress tags
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Creating keyword-rich content
137
Keeping it natural
138
Avoiding automated content plugins
139
Writing for your audience
141
Thinking about a searcher's intent
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Providing quality information
142
Writing to get results
143
Developing your writing style
144
Narrative styles
145
Structuring your content using taxonomy and hierarchy
147
Using WordPress categories
147
Managing your categories with plugins
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Advanced Category Excluder
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Multi Column Category List plugin
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My Category Order
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Fold Category List
149
Hiring a writer
149
Where to hire content writers
150
Summary
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Chapter 6: Link Building
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Understanding the importance of backlinks
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The mathematics and operation of PageRank
154
The PageRank damping factor
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PageRank is shared among outbound links
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Distinguishing between dofollow versus nofollow links
157
Understanding nofollow links
157
Avoiding and identifying nofollow links
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The diminishing universe of followed links
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Making use of nofollow links
161
PageRank: summary and conclusion
163
Authority links: what they are and why you want them
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Link anchor text
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Site-wide links and footer links
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Repetitive links from common IP addresses
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How to measure your inbound links
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Measuring inbound links with Yahoo! Site Explorer
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Measuring inbound links with Google
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Measuring inbound links with online tools
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Measuring inbound links with paid tools
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Getting links through link directories
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Finding valuable link directories
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Building links with super directories: Yahoo! directory and DMOZ
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Building links with article submission sites and directories
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The best article directories
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Setting up accounts with Ezine Articles and Squidoo
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Ezine Articles
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Squidoo
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Link building by commenting on blogs and forums
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Blog commenting
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Comment for good, not for evil
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Forum commenting and signatures
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Building links through direct link requests
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Asking for links from the sites in your niche
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Telling webmasters why they should link to you
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Requesting links from vendors
181
Reciprocal linking: is it dead?
181
Building links by creating link bait
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Resource lists
182
Sharing a humorous story or article
182
Writing about current events
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Writing something controversial
182
Interviewing an expert
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Giving something away
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Testing something
183
Developing How-to Information
183
Creating video content
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Creating quizzes
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Using a catchy title
184
Examples of effective link bait
184
NxE's 50 most influential bloggers
184
Fast lane—the slide
185
The CMO's guide to the social media landscape
185
Summary
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Chapter 7: Using Social Media
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What is a search engine?
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Going viral with social media
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Using LinkedIn to promote your business or website
191
Microblogging with Twitter for business
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Employing Twitter for your business
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How to get people to follow you on Twitter
196
Using Twitterfeed to automatically update your followers
of new blog posts
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Top tips for using Twitter for business
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Using Twitter to promote your business
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Using social bookmarking sites to promote your business
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Getting started with social bookmarking
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Choosing a social bookmarking site
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Beginning with social bookmarking sites
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Promoting your website through social bookmarking sites
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Timing is important
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Your ranking matters
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Submit a catchy headline or title
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Remember to choose an appropriate social bookmarking site for your business
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Remember that social bookmarking websites are communities
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Leveraging Facebook for a business or blog
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Using Facebook to promote a new or existing business or blog
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Utilizing the full potential of Facebook
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Using a Facebook business page to promote your business or blog
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Using a Facebook group to promote your business or blog
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Choosing between a Facebook page and a Facebook group to
promote your business or blog
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Sharing content and connecting with others on Facebook: useful
features and applications
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Joining groups
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Increasing your circle of friends
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Updating your status often
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Posting wall comments
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Using the Birthday Reminder application
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Adding an RSS feed to your page or profile
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Using Facebook Ads
209
Linking your external website to Facebook
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Building a Facebook landing page
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Step 1: Add the static Facebook master language application
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Step 2: Configure your new company Profile tab
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Step 3: Make your landing page your default home page
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Step 4: Add great content to your landing page
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