WordPress been the most popular and the most powerful content management system (CMS) for blogging and now for professional websites. many of us have had concerns regarding meta tags and that has driven me to write this short blog on SEO.
For most of us when we think of developing a WordPress website, one quick question that comes into our minds is SEO. How are we going to make our websites’ Search Engine friendly?
Well, I have compiled a short list of some of the top SEO plugins you could use:
All in One SEO Pack
All in One SEO Pack is a WordPress SEO plugin to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines. This is the most commonly used SEO plugin with a high a number of those users recommending it.
HeadSpace2 SEO
HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs.
Platinum SEO Pack
Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your WordPress blog.Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the functionalities of All In One SEO plugin.
Automatic SEO links
Forget to put manually your links, just choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your blog.
SEO Ultimate
This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex, meta tags, Open Graph, slugs, canonical, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets.
SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections on your WordPress blog, It keeps track of 404 errors and generally tidy up any loose ends your website may have. This plugin is very useful if you are migrating pages from an old website or when changing the directory of your WordPress website.
SEO Friendly Images
This plugin will automatically update all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according to the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
Nofollow Case by Case
This plugin simply removes rel=”nofollow” from your comment links. If you want to replace nofollow for a link then you simply add /dontfollow at the end of the link. You can do this for author links in comments as well as for the links you find in the text.
We encourage you to visit the plugin link on WordPress to learn more on how it works before you install it.
Please note that some plugins do not work well with other plugins and so you should be careful when installing a new plugin.
