SEO Plugins For WordPress
One of the great features of WordPress is the power that it brings through the use of plugins. Now because WordPress is being used by millions of people there is thousands of potential plugins for someone to use on their site and or blog. Choosing the right ones to help benefit your site is crucial. SEO over the past few years has become such a high value topic with everyone fighting for rankings on keywords its important to make sure that you optimize your site as much as possible. Below are a list of some of the SEO plugins that we recommend and use ourselves. Now there is many different plugins out there for SEO and most of them are great these are just some that we personally have used and recommend. Please feel free to comment and let us know if you have any others that people should know about.
All In One SEO Pack
Features:
- Support for Custom Post Types
- Advanced Canonical URLs
- Fine tune Page Navigational Links
- Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
- ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
- Nonce Security
- Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META tags automatically
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
- For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
- For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
- You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
- Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
SEO Friendly Images
Features:
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress SEO plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes. 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 images 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.
SEO Smart Links
Features:
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.
