Seven Awesome WordPress SEO Plugins
June 14th 2009 6:14 PM
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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms today, and also makes a great content management system (CMS). WordPress is fairly well optimized for SEO out of the box, but there are definitely areas where it is lacking. Thankfully, a strong development community has led to many Wordpress SEO plugins that fill in these gaps, helping you get better search engine rankings for your website.
Here are seven Wordpress SEO Plugins I’ve found to be the most useful:
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All In One SEO Pack - This plugin configures important SEO factors such as titles, descriptions, keywords, meta descriptions, and nofollow. It is feature rich and should be used for any WordPress blog or website to drive more search engine traffic.
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Sitemap Generator - A highly configurable sitemap generator with support for permalinks, multi-level categories and pages, hiding specific pages and categories , multi-page generation, and more useful options not present in competing sitemap generators. Sitemaps are important to help both visitors and search engines navigate your site.
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Simple Tags - Tags are useful for websites because they help organize your content. This is a great tool to help you manage them in WordPress.
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SEO Friendly Images - The use of images on websites is extremely important to visitors, helping them understand and navigate your site quicker. This plugin saves a lot of time in implementing Alt and Title tags. One great feature I like is that if you forget to add these tags to an image, they can be automatically added using the options.
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Redirection - Manage 404 errors and organize 301 redirections. This plugin is very useful if you are re-organizing the structure of your website.
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Yet Another Related Posts Plugin - Related posts are a great way to keep your readers engaged with relevant content. This plugin will list related posts and pages at the end of the article the visitor is reading.
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Meta Robots - Manage meta robots settings (index / noindex, follow / nofollow) for any page or posts with this plugin quickly and easily.
Implementing these SEO plugins on your WordPress website will help you drive more website traffic. Which WordPress SEO plugins do you use? Are there any that should be added to the list?
