5 Excellent WordPress SEO Plugins To Help Your Website
SEO for your WordPress blog has never been easier due to the amount of free plugins there is available. WordPress SEO is an essential part of building an online presence, let’s face it if no one knows you are there then how do your expect to build traffic or a userbase?
Basic SEO and page tagging comes built into WordPress with use of post titles etc, but stuff like adding meta descriptions, keywords, robots txt files and other on page SEO can easily be structured to your needs without you being an expert coder. Many bloggers can’t edit page code, nor do they know a lot about SEO, but plugins solve this by giving you options to optimize your pages from the dashboard.
Let me show you my 5 top useful WordPress SEO plugins that I have used regularly on projects.
SEO Ultimate
A bit of a bold name, but this plug in really does have a lot of features. I found the first version of this SEO plugin a bit buggy, but they seem to have ironed out a lot of the creases. This plugin allows you to edit pretty much everything from custom meta tags, robots txt, optimize slugs, automatic deep links from your valuable keywords in posts, no follow links, link masking.. You name it, it seems to be in here. I guess it is one of the most feature packed WordPress SEO plugins, and if there are modules within it which are of no use, then you can easily disable them in settings for it. Worth trying this plug in, but it does take a little bit of time to think about what you wish to achieve with it.
See – SEO Ultimate
All In One SEO
It couldn’t really be a post about WordPress SEO without mentioning this one. Most who develop on WP will have used this at some point, it’s a great fast plug in that does the basics of what is needed to add relevant meta tagging to your pages, and allow you to noindex certain areas like archives to stop any duplicate content issues.
The thing I really love about this plug in is how easy and fast it is to get your pages in shape. Quickly add in your homepage metas, check some boxes of what you want indexed, and hey presto your pages will get found and indexed by Google properly. Yeah it’s not the best optimzation around, but you gets what you pays for in this world, and if you want more there is a PRO version available.
See – All In One SEO
Gregs High Performance SEO
This one has been around a long time and is regularly updated, new features being added all the time. Covers most important aspects of SEO for WordPress, from Canonical links, meta tagging, and robots txt. The good thing about this plugin is it supports tags and SEO left behind by most other plugins. So if you decide to migrate it picks up most settings you already had ready for you to modify. A very useful plug in and worth a play with..
See – Greg’s High Performance SEO
WordPress SEO By Yoast
Yoast SEO plugin covers everything, from meta tagging, robots txt and other usual features plus enables you to have an optimized XML sitemap and clean up any old permalink URLs. Great plugin which is updated regularly by Yoast. Yoast also have a fair amount of other plugins for various functions, so they are a trusted developer.
See – WordPress SEO by Yoast
SEO Smart Links
Now this plug in doesn’t do a lot, and you can do similar things to this using SEO Ultimate, however if you don’t have the time to get your head around all the various features of that plug in this is a great tool for cross linking yor best content.
When you have an established website, you can go through your stats and find the pages which are getting you the most traffic, and determine which keywords are bringing the traffic to those pages. Using this you can then set up each keyword to link from your postings automatically. A great thing if you have many authors on your site, and want their content to link to your best pages.
See – SEO Smart Links
So that is it for now, hope you can experiment with some of these great free WordPress SEO plugins.
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