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SEO WordPress Plugins You Should Be Using

January 19, 2010 by Pablo Palatnik

If you are using WordPress as the platform for your blog or website, you should be looking into plugins that can really help optimize your blog and/or website. This blog is a wordpress blog and even without any plugins it optimizes fairly well. Here you’ll find a list of some SEO WordPress plugins that you can use to help optimize your blog. So far, I have used 2 and I believe one has made a difference, even in the smallest way.

You can start downloading these now by reading their features and functionality and clicking on the link to go directly to the wordpress press and begin downloading instantly.

ALL IN ONE SEO PACK
Some Features:
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.
You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
Advanced Canonical URLs

Google Sitemap Generator
Function:
This plugin will generate 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 crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it 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.

Platinum SEO Pack
Some Features:
Automatic 301 redirects for any permalink changes
Canonical URLs
Optimized Post and Page Titles for search engines
Generates all SEO relevant META tags automatically
Option to specify meta description and meta keywords tag for categories and tag pages. (http://techblissonline.com/wordpress-categories/)**
Option to turn off Page title or Post title rewrites for any particular post or page(http://techblissonline.com/page-title/)**
Option to turn off Page title or Post title format for any particular post or page
Helps you avoid duplicate content
Lets you override any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page
Compatible with most other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.However you may have to disable All in One SEO pack
You don’t have to fear changing permalinks. If you are not satisfied with the current permalink, change it through Settings Permalinks in your admin panel, without worrying about loss of Page rank or google penalty.Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect to the new location.This is a new essential feature, not present in All in one SEO.
Add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydir, noarchive, nosnippet meta tags to any post/page.These options are not available in All in one SEO Pack.Find out why this option to set post/page level Meta Robots Tag useful?

SEO Friendly Images
Functionality:
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. 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.

SEO No Duplicate
Functionality:
This simple plugin helps you easily tell the search engine bots the preferred version of a page by specifying the canonical properly within your head tag.

Why would you do such a thing? Simply because many black-hat SEO folks abuse duplicate content to gain search ranking and search engine try really hard to detect and penalize them. The last thing you want to do is present yourself as an SEO spammer to search engines.

Broken Link Checker
Some Features:
Monitors links in your posts, pages, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
Detects links that don’t work and missing images.
Notifies you on the Dashboard if any are found.
Also detects redirected links.
Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
Link checking intervals can be configured.
New/modified posts are checked ASAP.
You view broken links, redirects, and a complete list of links used on your site, in the Tools -> Broken Links tab.
Searching and filtering links by URL, anchor text and so on is also possible.
Each link can be edited or unlinked directly via the plugin’s page, without manually editing each post.

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