Local SEO: A Roadmap To Successful Local Ranking

Just launched a new book called Local SEO: A Roadmap To Successful Local Ranking.

You can find it on On my Amazon Tom Crandall Author Page.  The book goes into detail about Local SEO and citation building to improve local rankings.
 

Useful Programs to boost your SEO on Wordpress

FileZilla - This is a free program that allows you to upload/download files to web servers like Godaddy.
https://filezilla-project.org

The info you would need is the host name, user name, password and port.  Godaddy would have that info if you hosted with them.

SpyFu - This is a limited free program that allows you to check out other websites and see where their traffic is coming from.  You can get a lot more out of it if you buy the paid version.
https://www.spyfu.com

Screaming Frog SEO Spider - This is a fantastic tool that you can run on a website to see stuff like broken links and things like that.  Just started playing around with it.   This was the program I used to find my broken links.
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider

Useful Wordpress Plugins

Here are some great Wordpress plugins I use
Ninja Forms and Ninja Popups - These are the plugins that I use for newsletter signups.
Social Count Plus - Allows you to display your social media accounts and how many followers you have.
Yoast SEO - Awesome on page SEO plugin.
Yuzo - Related Posts - Displays related posts
Contact Form 7 - Allows you to create forms for things like a Contact Us page.
Akismet - Helps prevent spam.