Sep 27
2008Best 10 SEO Plugins for Wordpress
Filed Under (Internet, SEO, Social Networks) by ron on 27-09-2008
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Best 10 SEO Plugins for Wordpress
My list of SEO wordpress plugins, this list comes in handy with some of the best plugins for wordpress that have been developed to enhance the search engine optimization of your blog. SEO plugins will help you in the search engine rankings and getting more hits to your blog.
Here the Top Ten SEO Wordpress Plugin
1. All-in-One SEO Pack
Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
* Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
* Generates META tags automatically
* Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
* For Wordpress 2.3 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
* You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
* You can fine-tune everything
* Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
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2. Google Sitemap Generator
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.
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3. Robots Meta
There’s no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin.
This plugin makes it possible (and very easy) to:
* Prevent indexing of your search result pages, while still allowing the search engines to follow the links on them, by adding noindex,follow robots meta tags.
* Disallow indexing of subpages to your homepage, category pages, author pages and tag pages, to prevent duplicate content.
* Prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages by adding noindex robots meta tags.
* Add noodp an noydir meta robots tags, allowing you to opt out of DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory descriptions.
* Prevent Yahoo! and Google from indexing your feeds by adding a meta tag to their head-section.
* Prevent indexing of just your comment feeds.
* Disable author and date-based archives.
* Nofollow category listings on single pages and posts to prevent PageRank leakage.
* Nofollow your login, register and admin links, because they really don’t need PageRank.
* Enforce a trailing slash on archives.
* Edit your .htaccess and your robots.txt from within WordPress.
* Assign robots meta tags to individual posts & pages.
* Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer.
* Add noarchive tags to your blog
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4. SEO Friendly Images
SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.
TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.
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5. CommentLuv
Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, with AJAX CommentLuv for Wordpress and Wordpress MU you can give something back to your community straight away by including a titled link for their last blog post on the end of their comment.
The plugin fetches the feed of the commenter while they type their comment and extracts the last blog post title with link and displays it below the comment form. When they submit their comment, the last blog post link gets added on the end of their comment for all to see!
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6. HeadSpace2
HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site. Visit the HeadSpace page for a video
* Tags/keywords, with suggested keywords
* Descriptions
* Page titles
* Custom ‘more text’
* Site name and site description
* Custom themes - change your theme on each page!
* Custom plugins - load a plugin only on specific pages
* Additional CSS and JavaScript files
* Noindex and nofollow
This is all included in a single plugin. Because of the large number of other meta-data plugins, HeadSpace provides an import function for the following plugins:
* Ultimate Tag Warrior
* All-in-one SEO
* HeadMeta Decription
* Jerome’s Keywords
* lud.icro.us Head Meta
* SEO Title Tags
* Simple tagging
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7. ShareThis
ShareThis makes a WordPress plugin that provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to post your site content to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail & other communication channels (like Facebook and MySpace) to a friend.
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8. WP-Cache
WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and the building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.
WP-Cache started from the ”’Staticize Reloaded”’ by matt and billzeller. Most of their recommendatiosn also apply to WP-Cache. Current version, WP-Cache2, is a huge improvement over previous versions of WP-Cache.
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9. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.
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10. Simple Tags
Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect tool to manage perfeclty your WP. It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of new functions
* Meta keywords generate from tags in your header’s blog
* Technorati, Flickr and Delicious tags
* Dynamic Tag Clouds with colors with Widgets (random order, etc)
* Related content since common tags
* Possibility to add related posts inside RSS
* Extended the_tags function (outside the loop, technorati, etc)
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Best 10 SEO Plugins for Wordpress
nice compilation. currently i am searching for wp plugin for search engine tags. Do you know anything about it?