{"id":536963,"date":"2014-04-22T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.connecticut.wordcamp.org\/?p=536963"},"modified":"2014-04-22T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T14:47:48","slug":"how-becoming-a-wordpress-seo-expert-can-make-you-filthy-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/how-becoming-a-wordpress-seo-expert-can-make-you-filthy-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"How Becoming a WordPress SEO Expert Can Make You Filthy Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a guest post from one of our speakers, <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.connecticut.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#wcorg-speaker-alex-miranda\">Alex Miranda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OK maybe becoming a WordPress SEO expert will not make you filthy rich, but you have to admit the title did grab your attention. <\/p>\n<p>If you have a WordPress website then you are on your way to having a site which is not only easy to manage but with proper search engine optimization, it will leave your competitors in the dust. <\/p>\n<p>Optimizing your WordPress site is not just about installing the proper SEO plugins. In Fact, WordPress is so search engine friendly that within a few weeks of properly optimizing your website, you will be ranking very well on Google. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Take for example the headline of my blog. You get just a few seconds to grab the attention of your intended target. This means you better make your headline impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at some of the reasons why your blog headline is so important:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It is the first impression to your reader, on search engines, social media, &amp; RSS Feed.<\/li>\n<li>80% of people read headline copy ONLY<\/li>\n<li>Allows you to use search terms you wish to rank on in the headline<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Those are just 3 reasons why the title of your headline is so important. Now let\u2019s look at my headline and see why I chose it.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I wanted to immediately grab your attention<\/li>\n<li>I wanted to rank on Google for multiple keywords taken from the headline.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you want to see a live case study on how I got a client\u2019s website to rank on the first page of Google for multiple search terms, then I suggest you drop in on my presentation. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2014.connecticut.wordcamp.org\/session\/case-study-optimizing-your-wordpress-website-to-rank-on-the-first-page-of-google\/\">Case Study: Optimizing Your WordPress Website To Rank On The First Page of Google<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh and BTW, based on my headline, can you figure out what search terms I was trying to rank for on Google?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a guest post from one of our speakers, Alex Miranda. OK maybe becoming a WordPress SEO expert will not make you filthy rich, but you have to admit the title did grab your attention. If you have a WordPress website then you are on your way to having a site which is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/how-becoming-a-wordpress-seo-expert-can-make-you-filthy-rich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Becoming a WordPress SEO Expert Can Make You Filthy Rich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8011705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8011705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536971,"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536963\/revisions\/536971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connecticut.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}