10 of the best SEO plugins for wordpress

Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by admin in SEO

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Wordpress as an opensource blogging platform does have good SEO out of the box but it can always be tweaked to make it even better – in this post we look at 10 free plugins to enhance your SEO efforts and help you get those top rankings!

1. All in One SEO pack – one of the most popular wordpress plugins ever and one that I make sure I install right away on every new install of wordpress. This plugin automatically carries a number of important tasks. Install. Now!

2. 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. You can set the title of the link, target, rel and also you can know every moment how many times a word has been changed.”

3. No follow case by case – Allows you to strip the “Nofollow” tag from certain comment links, trackbacks and pingbacks.

4. SEO friendly images – “SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes.”

5. SEO tag cloud widget – Displays a tag cloud in a search engine friendly manner.

6. SEO title tag – “Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization (”SEO”). It blows my mind how post titles are also used as title tags by WordPress, considering that post titles should be catchy, pithy, and short-and-sweet; whereas title tags should incorporate synonyms and alternate phrases to capture additional search visibility.”

7. Sitemap Generator – “This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel.”

8. Google XML sitemap generator – “This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.”

9. Headspace 2 – “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.”

10. Meta Robots -” There’s no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin.”

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