7 SEO WordPress Plugins DEFINITELY Worth Considering…

With so many plugins to choose from these days, there’s no limit to what your WordPress Blog can do. Here are several plugins to consider, each with a brief description of what it can do for your WordPress website…

WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast

WordPress SEO is the most complete WordPress SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview that helps you optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.

Dagon Design Sitemap

This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. And it’s another way to get your site deeply indexed quickly.

SEO Friendly Images

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.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. It also helps to better index your site by improving the visitor experience. Remember that by keeping your visitors on your website longer, you’re improving your SEO.

SEO Super Comments

For each user comment this plug in creates a new dynamic page on the blog, holding the actual comment information. This page will not actually exist in WordPress database, but will be created dynamically. Reason? It provides a  big jump in your site’s index that is visible to the search engines. Now your blog comments are crawl-able, index-able and most importantly rank-able content that can get you free search engine traffic.

SEO Smartlinks

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. And finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Rank Tracker

This plugin allows you to discover hundreds of profitable keywords and learn where you and your competitors rank for them in Google, Yahoo or other search engines in a matter of minutes. Plus you get an email every time your ranking for a keyword changes, or even if you begin receiving search results for a new keyword.

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