Five Essential WordPress Plugins

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Christine Hall
Jun 12, 2013

If you’re just starting your first blog or website, you’re going to have to get familiar with SEO or search engine optimization. You’re going to hate it, but you’re going to have to get familiar with it, unless you don’t care if no one reads your stuff. An SEO plugin attempts to do exactly what you might think. It tries to optimize your site so that the likes of Google and Bing notice it and decide that the article you wrote on preserving skunk grass in the wild goes to the top of the list of articles on skunk grass in search results.

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