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Top 13 SEO related plugins for Wordpress
Wordpress, Search Engine Optimization August 15th, 2007
Visited 1164 times, 1 so far todayIf you use Wordpress then you can take advantage of all these plugins that are very easy to use and install. These plugins will help to get your site ranked more quickly in the search engines so web users can find your site.
All in One SEO Pack - This fantastic plugin lets you optimise your individual pages and posts of your blog site. For search engines by allowing you to tweak the title, generate Meta tags and avoids indexing of duplicate content.
SEO Title Tag - Title tags are perhaps the most important features in regards to search engine optimisation (SEO). Did you know that your post titles are also used as title tags by Wordpress? Yu can change this by using SEO title tag plugin, which will allow you to change the tile so they are search engine friendly.
Google Sitemap Generator - This plugin will create a Google compliant XML-Sitemap of your Wordpress blog, which helps Googlebot to index your site much faster and index new posts.
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator – Rather than have a sitemap written in XML that users to your site can’t use you can use the alternative Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. You can create a sitemap for your visitors so they can navigate your site more easily. The sitemap is updated automatically whenever you add new content.
Sociable – You can allow your visitor to submit your site to popular bookmarking sites like Digg, Furl, Delicious, Reddit, and Netscape etc. By submitting your site to these bookmarking sites your content will be indexed much faster.
Link to Me -A script that allows visitors to link to your posts. This will help to build you incoming links that in return effects search engine ranking position (SERP).
SEO Friendly Permalink Structure – You can create SEO titles using pemalinks. The good news is you don’t need any plugin to do this. It can easily be done from your option page in the admin panel. I have written an article about this called “How to create SEO titles using Permalinks“. This article will tell you what permalinks are and tell you in 5 easy steps how to change your permalink.
Ultimate Tag Warrior – More and more blogmasters are starting to use TAGS on their site in addition to only categories. You can set up tag clouds which will tell your visitors what keywords are most popularly by displaying that keyword in a bigger font to the rest. The bigger the font the more popular the keyword, hence encouraging visitors to read the content. Visitors like tag clouds because they can find what they are looking for a lot faster and very easily.
Related Posts - This superb plugin will also increases the number of internal links inside your site and makes your posts appear more important to search engines. This plugin will encourage readers to click on similar topics to the posts just read rather than have them leave the site.
Automatic Pinging - You can allow automatics pinging by services such as Technorati, Feedburner, myyahoo etc. Automatic Pinging allows you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources. You can change the ping list on the Options - Writing page inside you admin panel. The more places you ping, the more chances of your site received traffic and getting your site crawled.
Get Traffic from your Images – People tend to forget that they can get traffic from the images they use. When you use images on your site, try to always use Alt tags or use the description box whenever you insert a new images.
SEO Slugs – Also know as post slugs in Wordpress, which is found on the right hand side of a Wordpress post. I don’t have this plugin yet but I’m thinking of using it because up till now I’ve been manually changing my post slugs by removing words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ to improve search engine optimisation.
For example, when you publish a post with a title like this:
” Top 13 SEO related plugins for Wordpress”, Wordpress automatically uses this title as your post slug, which is not SEO friendly as it sounds like spam. This plugin will strip out ordinary words like “what”, “you” or “can” from your post slug to make it more search engine friendly.
Search Hilite - When someone is referred from a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or Wordpress’, the terms they search for are highlighted with this plugin.
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