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17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog

Ari Herzog

When a search engine robot visits this blog and wants to know how different posts and pages are interconnected, a plugin creates that sitemap. Some popular plugins that other people swear by, such as for search engine optimization on a blog , are not used here because the Thesis theme (which is used here) includes that functionality.

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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

Google XML Sitemaps is like the Dagon Design generator above, but this one helps search engine robots know what the site looks like, enabling you to see the best post when searching for a keyword. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer prevents me from alerting search engines every time I update a page or post. Want to see the map ?

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

For those of you who don’t know why links are important, let me just say that if you want to get traffic from the major search engines, they’re crucial. Links from other sites to your site are basically a ‘vote’ that tell search engines you are trusted and you are a good resource for whatever your content is about.

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