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• Dynamic Widgets.(http://wordpress.org/extend/pluginwidgets/). This allows you to setupdifferent sidebar menus (created aswidgets) in different areas of yoursite.• Yet Another Related PostsPlugin (YARPP).(http://wordpress.org/extend/pluginanother-related-posts-plugin/). Thisallows you to setup a related postssection after each piece of content.When a visitor gets to the end of anarticle, they’ll see a list of relatedarticles and be tempted to clickthrough to one. This type ofinternal linking is also beneficial
from a search engine perspective,linking related content together.Content Organization on yourServer (non-Wordpress sites)Organization of your content on theserver and your site’s navigationsystem go hand-in-hand. Onemirrors the other. Well organizedcontent is stored in a logical,intuitive manner, which is reflectedin the navigation system.The physical organization on yourserver is only important if you arebuilding your website usingsomething like HTML, which storesas webpage as a discrete file. It
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An SEO ChecklistA step-by-step plan
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What People are Sayingabout this bo
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"Extremely useful informationfor an
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tested himself. This book is inline
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fitness for any particular purpose.
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ContentsWhat People are Saying abou
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Internal Linking of contentSite Str
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Checklist Point #9 - ContentQuality
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estateCheckpoint 3 - Site Structure
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Why this Book?I’ve already writte
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yourself and try to view yourwebsit
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hundreds or thousands of lowquality
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building) that were previouslytoler
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How to Use this BookI’ve divided
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If you like, you can work your wayt
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Guidelines," which outlinesome of t
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“illicit practices”?Here is a l
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extensively in backlinkingcampaigns
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Page 53 and 54: Checklist Point #1 - TheDomain Name
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essential list. It could be in thef
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You’ll see at the end of the Twee
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Google obviously monitor Googleplus
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• Setup Google Authorship for you
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a photo of a real person increasesc
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Do you see how Shane looks like are
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is in a resource box at the end ofe
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your site. It also gives you anoppo
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intermediary in the sales process,r
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as you only share qualityinformatio
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If your site is related to health o
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posted.• Bad reviews.• Poorly t
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• Is your business address displa
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Checklist Point #7 -Bounce Rates &
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on-site-bounce-rate-get-the-realnum
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rate, I am happy with this pagebeca
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content is good, maybe it’s just
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• Are visitors spending a long or
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might include things like cookiepol
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Legal Pages ChecklistNot all of the
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Checklist Point #9 -Content Quality
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content that people will wantto boo
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two from your web page and searchfo
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http://ezseonews.com/general/intern
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• Affiliate link disclaimer?If yo
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As you read your content, askyourse
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Fluff rating is a term I use with m
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websites that outsource theirconten
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A sitemap is a great way to checkyo
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This website has an article on“ro
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What about these two pages foundon
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similar reasons. Google hastraditio
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humans.While we are on the topic of
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somewhere. Now press CTRL+A(command
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Google. Therefore, according toGoog
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to see whether:• Links to that pa
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This is always a good check tomake.
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and see which keywords arerelevant
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available in the top 10 of Google?
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Content QualityChecklistLook at eve
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• If you use affiliate links, do
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than around the interests of thevis
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• Is your content driven bykeywor
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schemes”.“Any links intended to
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To put it bluntly, Google don’twa
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deleted/removed.OK, it’s importan
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There is a link at the top of the t
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This page tells me thatgreenscapeme
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In this case, it looks like one“a
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though there is a free version to g
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This site is a popular one, for goo
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how do you evaluate them?Link Schem
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could pay for a backlink in anynumb
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section of their website. Whenpeopl
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See how the anchor texts within the
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services, you won’t be able to ge
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Wordpress site that usually lists
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In terms of critiquing/cleaning upy
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results using the disavow tool:http
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keyword phrases that youwant your s
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This type of backlink is VERYbad fo
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unknowingly perhaps via thecomments
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them.• Are there site-wide links
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Real-World Examplesof Bad SEOModern
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There are 4 sections to thisnavigat
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Does it help the visitor?If this si
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The sitemap only has 9 entries, and
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the pages in the sidebar menu(Pages
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The webmaster was clearly trying to
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Example of FakeCommentsHere are the
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Google found that exact samesentenc
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clearly is not a good idea. As I wa
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An example of how NOTto create a co
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Incidentally, the same website also
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There are links fromPR1, PR2 andPR3
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Example of bad internallinkingInter
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your site using contextual links, t
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One final example on this site isth
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and not automated tools to do yourS
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have largely been removed, and that
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(like it still makes good income or
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in the footer, especially keywordri
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most potentially damaging.• If yo
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Checkpoint 4 -Comments• Does your
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Checkpoint 5 - Socialpresence• Do
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Checkpoint 6 - Wouldyou Trust this
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grammatical errors. Check yournavig
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• Are visitors spending a long or
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• Do you have an email policy pag
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websites. If it has, you need toimp
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to remove a lot of fluff, perhaps t
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use them. These should not bekeywor
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Checkpoint 10 -Inbound link profile
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URL or title/headline of the articl
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reason to cross-link the sites,remo
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Andy Williams
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the Panda update. Panda wasdesigned
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October).Whereas Panda seems to pen
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Amazon UK(https://www.amazon.co.uk/
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in our history, an opportunity iskn
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book, I published my first Kindlebo
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specifically need to know.I see eno
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Building a website was once thedoma
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step of your journey in great detai
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CSS for BeginnersLearn CSSwithdetai
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* The Float property* Units of Leng
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A basic knowledge of HTML isrecomme
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CreatingFatContent.com, where Ibuil
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