Best SEO Plugins for Wordpress
posted by: Vlad Akilov
If you are always trying to find new ways of getting more hits to your blog, you might consider making it search engine friendly. Thats where this list comes in handy with some of the best plugins for wordpress that will make you rank higher in googles search engine, or any other search engine. You might also want to check out some other great wordpress plugins, a list that I posted a while back about the top wordpress plugins, very useful plugins, many of which some of you might have never even heard of.
Head META Description - Provides an automatic meta description tag for your blog, inserting a dynamic description depending on the query-type.
Ultimate Tag Warrior - Best Tag system for WordPress. You can use categories and tag system on one website which is very cool. Makes it easier by searching through the tags you made for the posts.
Google Sitemaps - Generates a Google Sitemaps compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. The Google sitemaps program is part of the “Google webmaster tools”. Provides info on how people came to your site throught their googles search phrases.
Related Entries - Puts up related entries of your posts throught similar tags, and words. Good for SEO because more links within the site, great deep linking.
SEO Title Tag - Overrides several limitations in creating search engine optimized title tags for blog posts and for Pages in the WordPress blogging platform.
Landing Sites - When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific - often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog?
Google Sitemaps - UTW Tag Addon - This plugin is a WordPress 2.0.4 plugin that automatically adds the UltimateTagWarrior tags onto the end of the google sitemap XML file as produced by the Google Sitemap plugin.
And if I missed any plugins that help you rank better in Search Engines, and Optimize your rank, please just leave your comments along, with the name of the plugins, and I will add them to the list.
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September 22nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Excellent list! It’s cool that I already have all of those things in place. Not only are they good for SEO, they’re just generally good for readers.
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Thanks a lot Ben, hope the other readers enjoy it as much as you did.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Actually, I can’t get the landing sites to work. Where did you put the php code in your k2 install?
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Try to put it in the sidebar, also you have to uncomment, the ls_install function by removing the /* and */, in the landingsites13.php.
Also you have to have the related post plugin installed too.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:54 am
This is a great list. Thanks for writing about this.
October 1st, 2006 at 12:41 am
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October 2nd, 2006 at 2:54 am
Nice list, thank you very much
October 2nd, 2006 at 10:16 am
The Google Sitemaps Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin would go very nicely with this list:
http://www.dicontas.co.uk/blog/google-sitemap-utw-tag-wordpress-plugin/
It’s for those using the Sitemaps plugin and Ultimate Tag Warrior. This plugin adds your tag pages to your sitemap, something the Google Sitemaps plugin doesn’t do on it’s own.
It’s very good.
October 2nd, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Tyler: Thanks for the link, I will add it to the list.
Jess and Oskar: Thanks for your comments, I really appreciate it.
November 9th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Thank you, I’ve been using wordpress for 2 years and knew nothing about this.
I think I just started making an education on wordpress.
Bookmarked this page.
Thanks again.
December 1st, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Thanks for the list, i am using UTW on wp2.05 and definitely need some other pugins from your list
December 14th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Great tips!
Regards from Brazil
January 4th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Very interesting list of plugins, I use quite a few of them myself.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
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January 12th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Nice list. There is another plugin that you might like to highlight.
Its called optimal title. Url http://elasticdog.com/2004/09/optimal-title/
It changes page titles to be “page title - blogname” instead of the standard “blogname - page title”
Thanks again
Brian
February 21st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Thanks, this is a very interesting article and I’ve followed a lot of your tips. I didn’t even know about things like the Google Sitemaps plugin. Of course another way to promote your blog is to post comments on other people’s blogs, like this, and hope that people click your name up ^ there!
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February 26th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I’m using all of those plugins plus the excellent Search Phrases on my blog:
http://www.methodsreporter.com
March 1st, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Excellent comprehensive list of SEO plugins. I’m using most of these. Of course nothing works better than the ULTIMATE SEO RECIPE below:
1 convoluted list of popular searches
2 parts bourbon
30 minutes to hack out a pillar column based on what people want to know today (see convoluted list)
3 hours brag like heck
quality of content v. software - quality of content wins everytime
http://www.impaul.com
March 9th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Hey, I’ve got an SEO question for you. I’ve been using Blogger for some time, and I’m thinking about using WP for my next blog. What I’m wondering is, what’s better for SEO purposes: A WP-hosted blog (ex: ipods.wordpress.com) or a domain name (ex: ipods.com) using the WP platform? Based on this post, it looks like you’re pretty knowledgeable about SEO as it pertains to WP. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
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April 10th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Great SEO article and very useful SEO tips.
Frank
http://supaz.wordpress.com
May 4th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Arial, it’s better to use your own domain name and hosting.
May 18th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Great post! I’ve just started working on http://www.diggthis.net and this tips and plugins helped me a lot. Thanks!
June 29th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Nice list. I use this: wpSEO plugin.
June 30th, 2007 at 5:37 am
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September 28th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Thanks for the tips, I hadn’t seen the “Related Entries” plugin yet. One that you didn’t have in your list, but I notice you use is the Top Commenters plugin, thats a good way to get people to comment on your blog and keep coming back.
December 8th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I’m using all of those plugins plus the excellent Search Phrases on my site,too.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hello,
the WordPress plugin Seo all-in-One is also from the same category SEO and SEM, is also suitable for manual entering of meta tags to each blog post.
Alex greetings …
May 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Very helpful list of wordpress plugins. As of the latest version, not all of them are supported any more (such as UTW). Do you have any recommendations for people who are using WP 2.3 and above?
June 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
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July 15th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Very helpful list of wordpress plugins.Thats a good way to get people to comment on your blog and keep coming back.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
This is a great list what is required to get WpReloaded added to this list?
September 24th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I simply love the landing sites plug-in because when a user does not see what he or she is looking for in my blog, there are other options that they can be led to see if anything fits for them. It also enhances user interactivity within the site.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Hey,
You missed out “Headspace” you can find it here: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace/.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Hi, I am the owner of GSCSC, Inc. I am glad I found your information. I do believe that I am using a version of WP prior to 2.X or higher, and I don’t know if these will work with older versions. They should make a WP plugin for creating one way backlinks. Wouldn’t that be nice?
February 4th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Thank you, I’ve been using wordpress for 2 years and knew nothing about this.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again. Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed. Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!
August 25th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Thats a good list of Wordpress plugins.But recently there have been some more useful additions to the segment.I have been using Wordpress for quite sometime now and have added : All in One SEO Pack,Google XML Sitemaps,Neighbor Post Preview,Social Bookmarking RELOADED etc. to my blogs.These plugins have proved useful for me and am sure the same must be for the visitors as well.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Great list you have put up on here, have already installed some of these plugins in the last few days and have already seen my Alexa rank jump quite a bit (from 899955 to 742020) thanks to them. I also use the plugin that disables the nofollow attribute in Wordpress blogs, which is good because I’d hate to link to a site that tagged the nofollow attribute to my link. My website has a Page Rank of 3 and its accompanying blog is an offshoot from the same site (in other words, it is already with the domain and has “/blog” at the end of the root domain) so if anyone wants to exchange links with a dofollow web and blogsite let me know
January 6th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
There also the onlywire submitter which sends your post to all social media websites in a snap:
http://cashcowhq.com/seo-tools/26-wordpress-plugin-autosubmit-posts-social-media-websites.html#post62
February 12th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
try seo searchterms tagging 2 plugin
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/searchterms-tagging-2/
is really great to increase site serp and number of indexed page.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 am
Vlad,
Great website. I already have google sitemaps & I love it. I’m going to try SEO title tag and landing sites next. I hope you keep posting new plugins as they come up.