WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization
Improving your rank on all search engines
Exploring the changing nature of search engines
Understanding a search engine's inner working
Exploring on-page search ranking factors
Understanding off-page ranking factors
Converting visitors to customers: the third spoke of SEO
Customizing WordPress Settings for SEO
Setting goals for your business and website and getting inspiration
Knowing what WordPress already does for your SEO
Understanding what WordPress doesn't do for your SEO
Researching and Working with Keywords
Building your site's foundation with keyword research
Understanding relevance and the effect of short-tail and long tail keywords
Developing a powerful long tail search strategy
Researching keyword search volume with online keyword tools
Identifying and developing your keywords
Gathering keywords: Thinking about your customer's (imperfect) intent
Tuning and honing your keyword list
Understanding Technical Optimization
Choosing a keyword-rich domain name
Creating an effective permalink structure
Optimizing your Page/Post titles and title tags
A dying HTML element: meta keyword tags
Improving rankings with optimized images
The ultimate WordPress robots.txt file
Optimizing with the XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress
SEO power tool: Google Webmaster Central
Creating Optimized and Engaging Content
Engaging visitors with your content
Writing effective titles and headlines
Avoiding automated content plugins
Structuring your content using taxonomy and hierarchy
Understanding the importance of backlinks
Authority links: what they are and why you want them
Site-wide links and footer links
Repetitive links from common IP addresses
How to measure your inbound links
Getting links through link directories
Building links with super directories: Yahoo! directory and DMOZ
Building links with article submission sites and directories
Link building by commenting on blogs and forums
Building links through direct link requests
Building links by creating link bait
Using LinkedIn to promote your business or website
Microblogging with Twitter for business
Using social bookmarking sites to promote your business
Leveraging Facebook for a business or blog
Building a Facebook landing page
Automating Facebook updates with FacePress II
Going viral with the Share on Facebook plugin (and several others)
Automating twitter posts with Tweet This
Promoting your business or blog with YouTube
Avoiding the Black Hat Techniques
Diagnosing a Google ranking ban, penalty, or filter
Avoiding black hat techniques and purveyors who promote them
Flash, JavaScript, image links, and other non-readable content
Over-optimizing to improve ranking
Ignoring local directory listings
Paying for clicks when you rank organically
Leaving stray pages in Google's index
Failing to produce fresh new content
Testing Your Site and Monitoring Your Progress
Checking your website's code with an HTML Validator
Checking your inbound link count with Yahoo! Site Explorer
Monitoring ranking positions and movement with Rank Tracker