20 Most Valuable SEO Plugins For WordPress
Srikanth AD
WordPress is one among the popular weblog publishing platforms available on the web. There are millions of blogs based on WordPress.
Search engines are the best way to promote, publicize and help people discover your content. Thus, it is very important to optimize your blog or web site so that search engines can discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries.
WordPress, in addition to providing you with the state-of-the-art publishing platform, also provides plethora of plugins for Search Engine Optimization(SEO). Some plugins are really effective whereas some are not. To help you find the right plugin for your web site, we have composed some of the best SEO plugins.
1. All in one SEO Pack
One among the most popular and widely discussed plugins for WordPress. This plugin is easy to use and is compatible with most WordPress plugins. It works as an overall SEO plugin – automatically generating META tags and optimizes your titles for search engines and helps you in avoiding duplicate content. This plugin also enables you to manually include META tags (title, description and keywords) for each page and post in your web site.
2. HeadSpace2
A powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. It allows you to tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions, thereby improves your page ranking and relevance on search engines. You can also change the theme or load plugins on specific pages and much more. This plugin is available in multiple languages.
3. Platinum SEO plugin
An all-in-one SEO plugin with a host of features like automatic 301 redirects for permalink changes, auto generation of META tags, avoid duplicate content, SEO optimized post and page titles and a whole lot of other features.
4. TGFI.net SEO WordPress Plugin
This plugin is a fairly modified version of the all-in-one SEO Pack. The unique feature of this plugin is that, it’s directed at people who use WordPress as a CMS. It can auto generate titles, descriptions and keywords when overrides are not present and also avoids duplicate content.
5. Google XML Sitemaps
Generates an XML sitemap supported by Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask. Sitemaps make it much easier for crawlers to see the complete structure of your web site and retrieve more efficiently. It also notifies all major search engines every time you create a new post. You can either choose to write a normal XML file or a zipped file. In case of any errors, you can rebuild the sitemap manually. As a remark, Pingomatic can be used to ping your blog to multiple search engines and other specialized services.
6. Sitemap Generator
Creates a highly customizable sitemap for your WordPress powered web site. It enables you to choose what to show and what not to including – what order to list the items in. It supports multi-level categories, pages and permalinks.
7. SEO Slugs
Slugs are long filenames assigned to your posts. Ex: http://yourblog.com/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings. This plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’,'in’,'what’,'you’ etc. from the automatically assigned post slug to make it more Search Engine friendly.
8. SEO Post Links
This plugin works similar to SEO slugs. It shortens the post slug and retains only the necessary keywords making it Search Engine friendly. It allows you to choose the longest number of characters in your post slug and also remove unnecessary words.
9. Automatic SEO links
Just choose a word or a phrase for automatic linking and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your weblog. It allows you to set the title, target and rel. for each link. You can also set the anchor text and choose if it should be no-follow or not. If there are repeated words, only the first matched word in the post will be replaced.
10. SEO Smart links
Automatically links keywords and phrases on your blog with corresponding posts, pages, categories or tags on your blog. It allows you to set up your own keywords and a list of matching URLs and also set the no-follow attribute. You can customize it according to your needs through the Administration Settings Panel.
11. WP Backlinks
This plugin helps in making the task of link exchange very simple. Once installed, it puts a small form on the sidebar of your blog that allows webmasters and other bloggers to quickly submit a link for link exchange. The plugin will spider the webmasters site for a reciprocal link and if everything is successful you will have made a successful link exchange. It also has the option of displaying different links on different pages.
12. SEO Title Tag
SEO Title Tag makes it easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress powered blog. It allows you to override a page’s title tag with a custom one, mass editing of title tags, title tags for 404 error pages and much more.
13. 404 SEO plugin
Gives you a smart, customized ‘Page Not Found(404)’ error message and automatically displays links to relevant pages on your site, based on the words in the URL that was not found.
14. Redirection
This plugin helps you to manage 301 redirections, to keep track of 404 errors and also correct them. It also allows you to monitor your redirects by giving you full logs of all redirected URLs and also RSS feed for 404 errors. Automatically adds a redirection when a posts URL changes.
15. Simple Submit SEO/Social Bookmarking Plugin
This plugin adds submission links for Digg, Delicious, Buzz, and Stumble to pages and posts. It allows you to choose whether to display it on home page, post page, all pages etc.
16. AntiSocial
Adding this plugin on your blog allows readers to submit your posts to Digg, Reddit, Del.Icio.Us, StumbleUpon and other social bookmarking sites. It adds a row of buttons with links to the sites and also adds a nofollow to the links. It is actually a hacked version of the famous plugin Socialable.
17. AddToAny
Helps your readers share,save,email and also bookmark your posts and pages. It supports over hundred social bookmarking and sharing sites. It comes with a smart menu that places the services that visitors use a lot at the top of the menu based on their browsing and usage history.
18. SEO Friendly Images
This plugin helps in making your images SEO friendly. It automatically updates all images with a proper ALT and TITLE. ALT acts as a description for your image and TITLE is the tooltip text displayed when the mouse is over the image. These attributes are one of the important part of SEO.
19. Robots Meta
A very easy solution to add robot tags to your WordPress pages. It allows you to add meta tags to individual posts and pages, prevent indexing of your comments, login and admin pages.
20. Nofollow Case by Case
Allows you to selectively apply or remove nofollow attributes to comment links, comment author links, pingbacks and trackbacks and also open the comment links in a new window. If not configured it automatically strips nofollow attributes from all your comment links and comment author links.
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Frank O.
Posted 281 days ago 52informative article. im just studying wordpress and i can do SEO on this at the same time..thats cool! thanks a lot!
SEO
Posted 292 days ago 51This is the precise weblog for anybody who needs to seek out out about this topic. You realize so much its virtually onerous to argue with you (not that I truly would want…HaHa). You definitely put a brand new spin on a topic thats been written about for years. Great stuff, just nice!
john
Posted 301 days ago 49Thanks for the great list.
Between “all-in-one SEO” and “Platinum SEO,” which one is better? I mean in terms of SEO results.
Rean John Uehara
Posted 301 days ago 50We’re using All-in-one SEO and some big sites do too, so I guess it’s the All-in-one :D
Alfred
Posted 306 days ago 48very thanks … it helps very much..nice collection..
Ahmad
Posted 315 days ago 47Very nice collection thanks alot for sharing
Suhanesh Madav
Posted 322 days ago 46I think one of the biggest list I found so far.Thanks for listing the top seo plugins.
hussam
Posted 323 days ago 44Hi.
iam using all in one seo plugin,but i still have no traffic,or let me say very weak traffic :( can anybody help me?
My website is about webhosting offers and i started it on 2010 august!
my website address : http://myhostoffer.com/
If there is any idea please let me know!
thanks
Rean John Uehara
Posted 323 days ago 45Hi, one thing is be active on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Or spend some money on advertisements. :p
Korn
Posted 331 days ago 43I always wonder what is the better between “all-in-one SEO” and “Platinum SEO” as they seem to have similar features?
Umar Imtiaz
Posted 331 days ago 42very nice collection of seo plugins…i tried it and found it useful….thanks…..
gps
Posted 332 days ago 41Very good knowledge about wordpress that I don’t know before I will try
Vladimir
Posted 338 days ago 40You might want to check out new seo plugin released few days ago that has worked wonders for most of my clients. Smoke Signal
TheParanoidGamer
Posted 340 days ago 39Lots of good and helpful information. Thanks!
gaurav chaudhary
Posted 341 days ago 38nice collection of SEO plugins.
Now a days SEO has lots of importance if you are going for making any website or blog.
Reshard
Posted 355 days ago 37nice info for me still just learning…
Alex
Posted 363 days ago 36These are great list, but you forgot to include broken link checker plugin :)
DailyMorningCoffee
Posted 366 days ago 35I liked the “AddToAny” plugin – thanks for the info.
Kinect
Posted 373 days ago 34I’m already using about half of your list. I’ll definitely try the other half. Thanks.
David
Posted 376 days ago 33I like this post. Thank you for your Share! I would like your review for Pretty Link plugin.
nnamdi
Posted 377 days ago 32Very nice list.
I am using them.
I have digged this post.
Bronnamdi.
Cleber
Posted 382 days ago 31Very usefull article. I installed almost all of them. If you have a site with unique and quality content SEO can really make difference in terms of traffic.
It’s very good get free traffic from search engines like google.
bloggingtechnews
Posted 403 days ago 30Thanks. I hope it will increase my site search ranking.
hendri
Posted 418 days ago 29all seo plugins have the privilege of each. after reading this article I came to know plugins which work for my own blog. thank you very much.
Asuradech
Posted 439 days ago 28Thank you so much for your information. I will use your post to add that plugin on my site.
fash
Posted 457 days ago 27Maybe the best one was Headspace, but since the bug on the last wordpress’update, I use All in one SEO.
Rotten Elf
Posted 511 days ago 26Thanks for the suggestions. I’m also trying out “google positioner” however, it doesn’t seem to be working out so far. I spent tons of time inputting the keywords, however, it keeps giving me an “internal server error” and the plugin webpage is just a blank wp 2.9 demo theme with no content (very discouraging…lol).
Anyhow, I appreciate the article and will check some of these ones out (already using All In One SEO Pack…which is awesome)