7 Wordpress Plugins to Optimize SEO for Beginner WordPress Blogs
SEO is one of the most-told and least-understood terms these days in the world of blogging. Search engines are tried & tested sources of heavy traffic. But as a beginner its far more tougher to get started with this. Here is a bunch of plugins that will help you find better search ranks and of course grow up as a blogger.
This is the most useful & used plugin for bloggers. Assigning proper title tags, meta tags, keywords & description for the weblog entries is a must to attain higher ranks in the search engines. Those are the most basic steps for search engine optimization. This plugin helps you to edit all those tags very easily for every single post & without having any coding knowledge.
2. Redirection
In many cases some URLs need to be redirected to a new one. The cases may be shifting blogs, changing the Permalink structure or simply the 404 error pages. This plugin by John Godley is a gem in doing this redirection stuff with just a few clicks. It manages 301 redirections, keeps a log of the 404 errors. There are also some pretty pro features that includes “pass-through” redirections, redirections based on login status, redirect to random pages, redirects depending on referrers. The redirects can also be done in different languages. It also keeps a log of all these redirects.
There is no one more dull than the search bots. They seem to be intelligent enough to crawl (all) your pages but dull enough not to judge which one is unnecessary. And end of the day, you have to pay for their inability. It would be more foolish those cursing bots and not taking any action on your own. This can be fixed by robots.txt. This plugin by Joost de Valk will help you out of this by creating one such robots.txt for you which will tell the bots which pages are not to bee indexed.
Inter-linking is an important perspective that makes search engines decide how well your site is structured. The more your pages are interlinked the more important they are to this search engines. So you have to link your earlier posts from your newer ones and vice versa. That can be done manually if you have a few posts in hand to link to. But once your inventory grows it is unmanageable & painstaking to link them manually.
Vladimir Prelovac wrote this plugin to help you out of this misery of deep-linking your posts manually. So start this plugin from the very first day to develop a good inter-linking structure for our blog. Define the words with the links & they will get linked once you are writing a new weblog entry with those keywords included.
If you are one of those million bloggers who use images in their posts then this plugin by Vladimir Prelovac(again) will help you to use those images properly to get them properly indexed in the search engines. The images are nothing but just some (alt)texts to those search engine bots. This plugins will assign proper alt tags to the images even if you forget to Do so.
If you are this far in blogging then you must have heard of the PR thing(a rating out of 10 to signify your Importance to Google). Well whenever your pages link other blogs you are casting a vote in their favor which makes them a bit more important to Google. And in return they may also return you with the same link love. This makes you gain more PR value. But this vote is cast only if those links are “nofollow” ones(you don’t need to understand what that is right now).
The most common backlink that you provide others is the comments on your page. The person(commenter) wrote those words keeping two things in mind. Your post deserves to be commented & they will also get a backlink. But the Comment links are nofollow-ed by default. So they are invaluable. This plugin by Oliver Bockelmann will remove those nofollow tags from the comments which will attract your readers to post comments on your posts.
7. SEO Slugs
what are stop words ?? suppose you are creating a post named Plugins to get higher Search Ranks. They URL created will be “http://www.your-blog.com/plugins-to-get-higher-search-ranks” in which the words to, get are stop words necessarily ignored by the search engines. So a much better URL for search engine should be free of those stop words. This plugin by Andrei Mikrukov will remove those stop words and create a more meaningful URL like “http://www.your-blog.com/plugins-higher-search-ranks”.
Hope you found it useful. Which one you’re using? Share with us! Happy Blogging!!
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hey friend, good list you can also read 10 more plugins on my blog
Great you loved. Thanks for your comments dude..
hi lax, i need plugin for automatic create link to another post that have match word in title.
example :
SEO word will link to seo-mistake,
just like yours
It’s easy to Do, here you go: http://www.techzoomin.com/keyword-link-plugin-for-your-WordPress/
hi , thanks lax.
How about that I have all of them
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Wow great that you had all of them
I use SEO all in one, friendly Images and smart links. They are really very useful plugin. Thanx for sharing this list.
I use only SEO all in one. What exactly friendly Images does?
i alwaya use all in one SEO pack and google xml sitemap. there are always work for me.
I too use both of them. they are just simply superb
The First one is very important ” All in One SEO “.
I wish to suggest ” Yet Another Related Posts “.
Yes i use YARP plugin also..its too effective to get related posts in post and RSS too.
great list,WordPress is the best,
Yes WP is best
Very good information, I am using the All in One SEO as well!
I think 90% WP users will use this one.
Hi, great post. I am understanding WordPress and planning to move to WP soon. Bookmarked the post
That’s really good decision to move on WP.
I am using all of these plugins and the most beautiful one is All in One SEO pack.
Yes true.Your new blog name is very good dude…Too cache
are there any such widgets for blogger users
Which widget you mean. Do you mean Plugin.
This is really a very useful list… Using some of them currently and will try out the others..
Thanks for the Comment after long time Samrat.
Good list. Not sure if this plugin qualifies here, but I would also recommend Broken Link Checker.
BLC is a good plugin, but using too many plugins is not a good practice in reality.
You’re right Lax. Sometimes it’s difficult to draw the line between useful and must have.
That is some list.
Instantly bookmarked, but then realized that I can find the post here at TZI always
Awesome list. How about “Vote It Up” plugin?
I believe it adds up value when readers vote for an article.
I never used Vote it up. But using too many plugin is not at all a good practice.
I would like to share some more plugins which i have written in my blog
Have a look
http://www.gupshupblog.com/must-have-WordPress-SEO-plugins.html
I hope it helps everyone
Well i approve this link Comment, because it somewhere helpful to my readers
This was an awesome post; I installed a couple of plug-ins especially the SEO Smart Links. I was wondering how you did that.
i am using plugins 4 and 5 for 2 years or so and it did save me from many things. i personally recommend them.
All In One SEO plugin is great! I use it and is the best! Apart from that Robots Meta plugin too is a must have!