Best SEO Plugins for WordPress Blog

Since WordPress has been released, it is suggested as the best blog script on the internet. WordPress has a ease in its use. You can quickly manage stuff so it’s not hard about WordPress. However, every site requires a good SEO to gain the traffic and then earn money via that traffic. In a non WordPress site, it might be hard search engine optimize it. In WordPress, it is damn easy! you don’t need any coding experience. Just install the plugins listed below, and then you’re ready to fly in search engine!

1. All in One SEO Pack

Whenever you install a WordPress on your site, Don’t forget to install this plugin. It gives you an easy way to search engine optimize your WordPress, it does all the creepy jobs that no one like to do. Changing meta tags, description on your post and pages or site. It even allow you to change the title & the position of title on each page in your blog. I highly recommend this plugin.

2. Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemap Generator, An easy plugin which does all the sitemap jobs for you with few clicks! It makes your site easier to crawl and retrieve more efficiently the complete structure of your site. It also notify the major search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask. This plugin can also ping your blog via Pingomatic to various blog search engines. In the event of an error, you can also rebuild the sitemap. Even you can also choose the priority of each page or post on your blog. I highly recommend this plugin

3. SEO Friendly Images

In my opinion, Images play a very good role about search engine optimization of your site. Many web masters overlooked this, however this should be taken important as much as other SEO stuff . Images has the ALT and TITLE attribute, through which search engine judge that what’s image about. Mostly I’ve seen if a image is named as DSC001.jpg which pictures about a River and then administrator uploads it in the most cases the ALT will come to be “DSC001.jpg” whereas ALT River, Water will get you a lot traffic via Google image search. This plugin do this stuff itself .

4.HeadSpace2

A powerful plugin which hold the handful of seo tasks and provide you a chair sitting flexibility. It allow to make tags in your post, creating custom titles and description. A nice plugin to improve your search engine ranking. You can also change your WP Theme on specific page, or post. This plugin is being distributed in various languages.

5. SEO Post Links

SEO Post Links similar to  SEO slugs (I prefer this instead of SEO Slugs). It makes post url short and remove un-necessary words and retain only necessary words that makes it more search engine friendly. It also allows you to select the longest number of characters in your post url.

6. Automatic SEO links

Just select a word or phrase you want to get linked, it will link it to the specific link. It has options to select if you want no follow. You can also set an anchor text for the phrase or keyword. Also let you add title or target for the link you’re adding. If there are words repeatedly, it will only replace the first word found in the post.

7. SEO Smart links

This plugin automatically linkup keywords and phrases in your blog with corresponding posts, pages, categories or tags from your blog. You can also setup your own keywords and a list of matching URLs, beside this you can also specify the no follow attributes. You can customize it according to what you want throughout admin panel.

8. SexyBookmarks

SexyBookmarks is a simple plugin which shows social bookmarking icons in a good slide that is made under jquery. It supports a lot of social bookmarking sites, you can select which to show. You can also choose where to show the bar.

9. 404 SEO plugin

Gives you sweet, customized 404 Error page “Page Not Found” with a message, and automatically display link to relevant pages or post on your site as followed by the url that wasn’t found.

10.Redirection

It manages all your 301 redirects, it log 404 errors and try to fix them. It allow you to monitor your redirected urls with giving you full log of all redirected URLs, this also work in 404 errors of RSS Feed. It automatically adds a redirection when a post URL is changed.

A moral for SEO is that More users, More Traffic and More earning. I will be adding more plugins in Part II of Best SEO Plugins for WordPress Blog.