WordPress being the best CMS in the world is more and more popular for the kind of flexibility in providing numerous number of plugins and themes to suit our environments. Although it is known fact that Google Panda considers quality content as the key factor to drive traffic to your blog it is worthless without proper Search Engine Optimization. In other terms proper SEO can be termed as the heart of the blog which will decide the future of the blog. Checkout Top 10 WordPress Themes & Top 10 WordPress Theme Frameworks.
Luckily we have enough number of good plugins to do the SEO work for your blog where you can concentrate on the content and quality of the posts. Team InfoGenra has compiled a list of top 10 plugins which you can rely on for WordPress SEO.
All in One SEO Pack
This is the most widely used and popular SEO plugin available in the market. This plugin comes with easy to configure options and will be compatible with all versions of WordPress. It automatically generates meta tags and optimizes the WordPress SEO and avoids duplicate content issue.
Platinum SEO Pack
Platinum SEO Pack Plugin can be termed as the best competitor to All in One SEO Pack and it provides similar features as automatic 301 re-directions for permalink changes, generates META tags automatically, post slug optimization, and helps you in fixing the duplicate content issue.
HeadSpace2
This is a powerful plugin which can be used for managing META data and handles the wide range of SEO tasks. It even allows you to tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions which helps in improving your page rank and creates relevance to your blog posts on search engines.
Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemaps plugin helps you in generating XML sitemap for your blog which are supported by Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask search engines and it provides SEO compatible sitemaps and makes it easy for the crawlers/robots to crawl your blog contents and therefore helps you in indexing your blog posts quicker.
SEO Smart links
SEO smart links automatically links your keywords and phrases on your blog with the related posts, pages, categories & tags and thus decreases the manual work of tagging the older posts. This plugin automatically adds the no-follow attribute to the tagged URLs.
SEO Friendly Images
SEO Friendly Images plugin helps you in making your images uploaded in the blog posts SEO friendly by updating all images ALT and TITLE with your blog post title and helps you in generating additional traffic from the images you upload.
Google XML Sitemaps For Images
Google XML Sitemaps for images plugin helps you in generating XML sitemap for the images uploaded in your blog which are supported by Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask search engines and it provides SEO compatible sitemaps and makes it easy for the crawlers/robots to crawl your blog contents and therefore helps you in indexing your blog posts quicker.
Simple Tags
Simple Tags is an extremely popular plugin which focuses and helps you in choosing the best tags for the blog posts while you draft the articles. The AJAX admin interface helps you in editing mass tags.
Google XML Sitemaps For Mobiles
Google XML Sitemaps for images plugin helps you in generating XML sitemap which is compatible for mobile crawlers/robots and therefore helps you in indexing your blog posts quicker and makes them understandable for mobile bots.
Automatic SEO Links
Automatic SEO Links plugin allows you to choose a word or phrase for automatic linking for both internal and external purposes, besides that it allows you to set anchor text, select no-follow attribute.
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I have found Ultimate SEO does a great deal of the things listed above. It’s a fairly handy plugin that also tracks the 404 pages that may crop up. Consider checking it out.
will check out that plugin.. thanks for the addition..
Great tutorial! I learned things that I never knew before. Thank you for sharing it with us.