5 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress Blogs

You might have observed that despite of having unique and good quality blog posts, some blogs are not ranked well in search engines. It’s because of weak Search Engine Optimization(SEO) practices. Following are some best wordpress SEO plugins to optimize your blog for better SEO.

1. All in One SEO Pack

   All in One SEO Pack is one of the best seo wordpress plugin which automatically optimizes your blog for search engines. It’s a must have wordpress plugin with the following 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 etc.

2. Google XML Sitemaps

   Submitting a sitemap of your blog to search engines helps the search engines for better indexing your blog posts. Google XML Sitemaps is another must have wordpress plugin that generates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the search engine crawlers to see the complete structure of your blog and retrieve it quickly and more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

3. SEO Smart Links

   SEO Smart Links is another widely used wordpress SEO plugin which provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. This plugin can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. It also allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs.

4. SEO Friendly Images

   Adding ALT attribute to images is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image , ALT function is a key determining factor for a match. SEO Friendly Images plugin is useful in optimizing your blog post images for search engines. It automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images and improves traffic from search engines.

5. Redirection

   Yet another top wordpress SEO plugin which helps you to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your blog may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating from other platforms like blogspot, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Your blog can get better rank in search engines if you use the above plugins along with relevant keywords in your blog posts. Good luck!

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13 Responsesto “5 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress Blogs”

1. placer county traffic school says:

   September 8, 2010 at 5:36 pm

   Thanks for the Plugins. These will be a great addition to my blog!
2. Dirk Smith says:

   September 10, 2010 at 6:53 pm

   All SEO plugin are very useful and seo plugins useful for better blog and website related to SE…
3. Debrain says:

   September 17, 2010 at 9:14 pm

   Good! =)
4. underpinned house insurance says:

   October 3, 2010 at 1:21 am

   Thanks for the advice, will use it on our WordPress site.
5. Balaji says:

   October 15, 2010 at 8:46 am

   Thanks for this great post – I will be sure to check out your blog more often ….
6. Best SEO Plugin says:

   October 22, 2010 at 9:31 am

   Shafar I couldnt agree more with All-In-One SEO being the best free SEO plugin overall for WordPress. As the grandaddy of all SEO plugins it set the standard for all other SEO plugins.

   I really like that you provided other plugins that work well with AIO, and not those that conflict with it. That’s definitely the mark of a blogger who knows his plugins.

   I’ll be referencing this post on my main blog.
7. wimcip says:

   October 26, 2010 at 9:09 am

   Incredible! This really works. I spent hours trying to find a simple way to do this. Thanks a bunch.
8. seo developer says:

   December 22, 2010 at 3:32 am

   Read a lot of blogs with reviews of All in one SEO pack, I´ve tried it hundreds of times and it is the plugin that I use every time. It is the best, easy to use and effective.
9. David says:

   January 26, 2011 at 12:24 am

   A very good post. Do you send newsletters as well ?
10. Shafar says:

    January 27, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    @David
    Yes, you can subscribe to TipsBlogger email alerts from here:
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11. best plugins for wordpress says:

    May 7, 2011 at 12:54 am

    Hello Shafar , thanks for the lists. I have already tested number 1,3 and 4 and they are working quite good. I have not test the number two means Google XML Sitemaps plugin but I think I need to use it.
    please visit my site to see the plugins for wordpress and leave a comments what you think regarding the list. Hope you will get some of them are quite good and interesting for wordpress blogger. So, I am waiting for your feedback.

    Thanks,
    Hendrik,
    Germany
12. Tahsin says:

    October 20, 2011 at 8:40 am

    Have to be first.
13. Mr.Bhavesh says:

    December 1, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    Really wonderful plugins.I am currently using all the plugin you have mentioned except SEO Smart Links & redirect plugin.