5 Best Plugins for SEO in Wordpress

5 Best Plugins for SEO in WordPress

Today, we have a new guest poster. Let’s welcome Thomas Sinfield!

For those of us who are using WordPress as bloggers, we already have a great SEO advantage.

WordPress has been designed to make search optimization easy, but if you really want to ramp up your SEO efforts than there are few plugins that will really help you out.

1.All-In-One SEO

This is the first plugin you should get as soon as you install WordPress. I know there has been a lot of discussion here about whether to use All-In-One SEO or Platinum SEO. In the end it really does come down to personal preference, but just get one!

2.Google XML Sitemaps

If you want the search engines to make sure they come back and check for new posts then you need to make it as easy as possible for them. the Google XML Sitemaps plugin allows you to quickly set up a sitemap for your blog and set the rules for Google to abide by. You can then import this sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools if you use that.

3.SEO Smart Links

This is one that I have only recently come across – and cannot wait to upload and get working for me. SEO Smart Links helps you automatically link between your blog posts. This is done by you specifying certain ‘anchor text’ and the post you would like to link it to, and it will automatically find all the times this keyword or phrase is found on your blog and change it to a link to your post.

4.Broken Link Checker

If you want to make sure that your WordPress blog is totally optimized then you need to fix or remove and broken links that are leaking your PR juice. This is also important from a usability point of view because you want to make sure that visitors are not getting sent to outdated posts. Broken Link Checker does exactly what it’s name says, it monitors links in your posts and pages and notifies you on your Dashboard with any broken links.

5.NoFollow Plugin

Then to totally optimize your blog, you don’t want to be leaking juice to certain outbound links (affiliate links, etc), so you can use the NoFollow plugin to individually choose which links to make nofollow and which to make dofollow.

While SEO isn’t solely based on on=page optimization, these 5 plugins will make a great start for any blogger looking to increase their search engine traffic.

Thomas Sinfield is an internet marketer and blogger that teaches people how to conduct their own SEO services. To learn more visit his SEO blog.

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75 Comments

At 2010.06.11 16:47, Baba Pandey said:

There is plugin called WP-SEO which is also very good.
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At 2010.06.12 02:18, Personal Injury Lawyer said:

Hey, I tried All-In-One SEO and Google XML Sitemap plugin for my wordpress blog site after reading your blog. I like the both plugins.

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At 2010.06.12 13:23, Valentina said:

Thank you for the list … SEO Smart Links and Broken Link Checker are now going to be on my sites
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At 2010.06.14 05:46, Seo Services said:

I agree with you completely.

NoFollow plug-in has been updated ages back.

About AIO I have got the clear idea about its competitors and some of them providing much more enhancements with ease. Yes platinum SEO is one of them.

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At 2010.06.14 08:30, Sms lån said:

I personally use Seo title tag instead of all-in-seo, it’s more light weight and easy to use I think.

Also don’t forget a big blogs best friend, Dagon Design Sitemap Generator.

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- At 2011.09.22 02:43, henrekawen said:
  
  About AIO I have got the clear idea about its competitors and some of them providing much more enhancements with ease. Yes platinum SEO is one of them.
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At 2010.06.14 12:53, Alamin said:

Thanks this is my very first visit of your blog and really like it hope i’ll be back often. And thanks for your super 5 plugin list. All in one seo is best so far. Thanks

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At 2010.06.14 22:28, alamin@earn by blog said:

Thanks all of those plugin are great. I love all in one seo most.Thanks again

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At 2010.06.15 10:51, 5 Best Plugins for SEO in Wordpress | Free Blog Help | Intenseblog.com said:

5 Best Plugins for SEO in WordPress | Free Blog Help…

…ss. I know there has been a lot of discussion here about whether to use All-In-One SEO or Platinum SEO. In the end it really does come down to personal preference, … Then to totally optimize your blog, you don’t want to be leaking juice to certai…

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At 2010.06.15 20:46, Jackall said:

What’s really great is that one man bands like me don’t have to pay SEO “Pirates” for bad work, I can do the bad work myself with these tools

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At 2010.06.19 07:16, Blog Angel a.k.a. Joella said:

I’ve got most of these covered, but I have been dragging my feet when it comes to SEO smart links. Guess I better get it together and add it to my arsenal of plugins.

Thanks for the reminder.
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At 2010.06.20 12:47, Justin said:

Nice article, these plugins and a few more I think that they are the most required and best.
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At 2010.06.22 14:18, Sudeep Acharya said:

Really great and very essential plugins for wordpress users.
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At 2010.06.22 16:38, Suggest link said:

Thank you for this very informative post, with my websites I use all sorts of plugins but I never thought of broken link checker and nofollow plugins…but I can see their use now…

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At 2010.06.25 05:07, silver frames said:

All the plug ins are very much helpful .I love acquiring more knowledge of it before building a blog of my own.

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At 2010.06.26 02:59, lead generation melbourne said:

What a super site and informative posts! Thanks
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At 2010.07.01 11:50, Eseotips said:

Great plugin. I use thesis theme so dont need it for my site. anyway i will bookmark it ^^
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At 2010.07.02 17:06, Eugene said:

Just an amzaing post. Tnx a lot!

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At 2010.07.06 00:47, Joynal Abedin said:

I am using Google XML Site map and ALL in SEO pack.

I am not sure should i use Nofollow plugins or Commentluv?
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At 2010.07.06 13:37, internet and network marketing tutorial said:

I found your article very interesting, do you still have another article? maybe we can share the article

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At 2010.07.07 12:45, Hieu Martin said:

All plugin you posted is good for SEO. My site use thesis framework so i’m not install All in one SEO
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At 2010.07.10 01:54, Sarah @ small chest freezer said:

I do not use WordPress. I have heard some great things about it. I may change soon.

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- At 2010.07.15 21:53, Eseotips said:
  
  yeah wordpress is great. try use it and you will happy
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At 2010.07.10 17:18, joe said:

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At 2010.07.10 17:47, Financial bondage said:

never heard of seo smart links. I’ll check it out. thanks.

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At 2010.07.13 08:26, online sales melbourne said:

Very good information and linkI appreciate you sharing this with us.
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At 2010.07.16 11:18, Brian said:

Perfect information. I definitely like and got so many information. I am a beginner here and I really need all the information provided by the post and with all the comments.

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At 2010.07.28 05:50, sales management training said:

I like All-in-one-Seo for the titling tool. It works to custmized a title for the search engine and one for your readers.

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At 2010.08.22 08:51, GSM Remote Control said:

Just the information I was looking for, thank you

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At 2010.08.22 08:51, Garage Remote Control said:

Very interesting, will visit again

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At 2010.08.22 08:52, Roller Shutter Control said:

Thank you for the information, keep up the good work

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At 2010.08.22 08:53, Garage Door said:

Excellent post, thanks.

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At 2010.09.14 04:44, Elia@Secondary sales management said:

Thank you for the information on plugins. Very useful information.

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At 2010.10.23 03:25, best wall mounts said:

ill use in my website thanks for information about plugins

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At 2010.10.23 03:26, Carpet Cleaning NY said:

thanks for sharing this post i want to some more information about plgins so ill waiting for your next post thanks.

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At 2010.11.09 04:51, Catalin said:

Using them all plus a few more.
I’ll have to rate ‘All-in-one-SEO’ as #1 plugin because of the flexibility and control you get over the meta tags on each post and ‘NoFollow’ as #2 because it gives you the ability to choose which to make NoFollow and DoFollow, though I’m more of a ‘DoFollow’ kind of guy haha
I love appreciating the contribution I get
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- At 2010.11.09 23:30, Gabe Young said:
  
  Personally, I’m a big AIO fan. That said, lots of folks here have vouched for Platinum SEO as well.
  
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At 2010.12.15 06:37, VA Web Design said:

You can blog your heart out, but if you don’t have good SEO, then odds are you won’t have many readers. Luckily, the WordPress plugin community values SEO and has developed a number of plugins to help.

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At 2011.01.31 05:42, BT Jerry said:

I sincerely enjoyed your Post Gabe. I forgot about Broken Link Checker .
P.S. It looks like you have placed a lot of effort into your blog and I need more of these on the net these days. I do not really have a large amount to say in reply, I only wanted to sign up to say great work.

Best
Jerry

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At 2011.02.10 23:44, Graphic Logo Design said:

nice post and these Plugins is very useful in word press seo:-)

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At 2011.03.17 01:39, Alishaneuron said:

Love all your work. You are a real master. Really very useful plugins.

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At 2011.03.19 05:53, دردشة الحب said:

Thanks for sharingkj

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At 2011.03.20 18:10, Sms-lån said:

Great post! Also the Google Analytics for WordPress is a major one. Integrates with one click.

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At 2011.05.13 00:01, Fire Protection Services said:

You are absolutely correct that this 5 plugins are the best for any blog as SEO.
From the best of my knowledge the SEO ultimate is the best plugin which i am also using in my blog.
What do u think?

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At 2011.06.01 17:46, Sms Lån said:

I use all sorts of plugins but this list shows all you need!

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At 2011.07.01 12:59, Plastic Storage Bins said:

people attempting to optimize their website should try all of those plug-ins.
They should also bookmark this blog since Gabe is basically an SEO genius.
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At 2011.10.19 06:56, Poppy Gardner said:

Hello Thomas,

Thanks for sharing this information to us. This is really helpful.
Among the top 5 plug-ins for WordPress that you have mentioned in this article, my top 2 favorites are the All-In-One SEO plugin and the broken Link Checker. I use both of them on my blogs.

Cheers!

Poppy
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