Have you ever done things the long way and stupidly forgot to ask “is there a faster/better way to do this”?
I have… a lot.
Creating tables of contents is one such example for me. For years I manually coded tables of contents in my longer posts. It was such a hassle I sometimes chose to skip the TOC because it was too tedious to code it. Yeah, I can get a bit hasty when it comes to hitting the publish button and moving on.
During my niche sites’ restructuring planning, especially when it came to my pillar posts, which are very long, it finally occurred to me that there must be a plugin to automate tables of contents.
Subhead 1 — An H2
I was right. In fact there are several.
After testing a few, I settled on Table of Contents Plus (it’s free).
Here’s the table of contents for this post created with the Table of Contents Plus plugin:
The plugin descriptions states “Discover how Google uses this index [the table of contents links] to provide ‘Jump To’ links to your content.
What does this mean? H2
What this means is that a Google SERP listing for posts with the TOC Plus plugin activated will actually include additional links to specific parts in your post.
I don’t have to tell you that any unique aspect of a SERP listing can increase click through rate from the SERPs to your website. I also don’t have to tell you that more links in a SERP listing can only be a good thing.
All I have to say is it works.
After creating a handful of tables of contents with this plugin, I was doing some typical searches to see how my site shows up in the SERPs and lo and behold, there was a listing for my site with 4 ‘Jump To’ links in the listing. That’s absolutely awesome. That’s four additional links people have to click and enter my site.
Here’s an example for a Fat Stacks post I published.
What this means is that a Google SERP listing for posts with the TOC Plus plugin activated will actually include additional links to specific parts in your post. I don’t have to tell you that any unique aspect of a SERP listing can increase click through rate from the SERPs to your website. I also don’t have to tell you that more links in a SERP listing can only be a good thing.
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What this means is that a Google SERP listing for posts with the TOC Plus plugin activated will actually include additional links to specific parts in your post. I don’t have to tell you that any unique aspect of a SERP listing can increase click through rate from the SERPs to your website. I also don’t have to tell you that more links in a SERP listing can only be a good thing. What this means is that a Google SERP listing for posts with the TOC Plus plugin activated will actually include additional links to specific parts in your post. I don’t have to tell you that any unique.
Another H3 Subhead
After creating a handful of tables of contents with this plugin, I was doing some typical searches to see how my site shows up in the SERPs and lo and behold, there was a listing for my site with 4 ‘Jump To’ links in the listing. That’s absolutely awesome. That’s four additional links people have to click and enter my site.
Here’s an example for a Fat Stacks post I published.
An Example (back to H2)
What this means is that a Google SERP listing for posts with the TOC Plus plugin activated will actually include additional links to specific parts in your post. I don’t have to tell you that any unique aspect of a SERP listing can increase click through rate from the SERPs to your website. I also don’t have to tell you that more links in a SERP listing can only be a good thing.