There are more Wordpress SEO plugins out there than you can poke a stick at; or ever use. I’ve seen at least twenty SEO plugins for Wordpress and I wonder who the heck has time to use even a fraction of them? You can learn the bulk of the SEO game by understanding the simple words of StomperNet’s Brad Fallon … “Use your keywords early, and often”.
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There you go, you’re on your way to being an SEO guru! OK seriously, there is a LOT to know about SEO however you can have Google give you a ton of love by doing some really fast and basic optimization. All you need are Brad’s words in your mind, and two plugins to let you optimize your Wordpress content quickly and easily.
Before you publish
First up, do your keyword research with free keyword tool at Wordtracker (or similar tool). Find the keywords you are looking to optimize any given post or page for. When you’ve got that down, you can publish your post and optimize that post with the following two essential SEO plugins for Wordpress.
Two Essential SEO plugins for Wordpress
All In One SEO
The grand daddy of them all: All In One SEO.
Sitemap Generator
Dagon Design has been giving and getting a lot of love from the Wordpress community. Here is their sitemap generator plugin.
Those are the two I can’t live without. What about you … got a favorite SEO plugin you just have to use?
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May 13th, 2009
Nice posting admin. I agree with you. i like this blog and will visit this blog any time.
June 10th, 2009
There is another one I like using it's called ubd ad block. Can't remember where I got it from but will check and post. It manages 125×125 banner ads and rotates them. see it on my blog: resveratrol side effects
June 11th, 2009
Add the ubd ad bloc manager wp plugin to place 125×125 banners on the blog and rotate them. Theo from dermapril
June 13th, 2009
Can you cover how to set up widgets in word press?
June 14th, 2009
Thanks for the plugin info
June 14th, 2009
thanks for the comment
June 15th, 2009
Do you know the link to ubd plugin?
June 30th, 2009
Agree with you, i always use these plugins in all of my blogs.
July 6th, 2009
Thanks… I have been trying to decide how to manage SEO when I start a bog, or a wordpress website.
All In One SEO. gets lots of mentions, does anyone know if it is compatible with wordpress 2.8.
July 6th, 2009
Np. Yes, it works fine with 2.8.
July 6th, 2009
Blimey Danno… that was a quick reply.
Thanks.
August 10th, 2009
Another I would suggest for the list is Greg's High Performance SEO, which configures over 100 separate SEO characteristics while loading only about 600 lines of code per page view and avoiding the use of crude output buffer hacks. By contrast, the 'leading' SEO plugin (I won't name names!) configures around 20 parameters and loads something like 2000 lines of code.
It's not for everybody — several people have reported that they don't want to have to deal with the full SEO picture and would rather just the some basics. But I think it's worth checking out.
All the best,
Greg (yep, that one)
September 9th, 2009
Great. This is a very good list for anyone using wordpress. I will print this list out and use it!
September 9th, 2009
hiii…
all in one seo is really a very good plug in. Thanks for pointing out. I am also using it on my blog now.
Thanks for the post.
October 3rd, 2009
nice blog….stomepernet is great as is All In One SEO….Thanks for sharing…..
October 12th, 2009
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October 17th, 2009
i agree with your best seo plug ins
still, all in one seo is the best
November 5th, 2009
i use not all in one seo plugin, i use WP SEO. But the all in one seo plugin is good.
November 29th, 2009
Hi Greg
Your plugin gets a good ranking over on the Wordpress plugins site.
Not heard much about it, but I might give it a go.
Are there any reviews out there that you know of?
December 19th, 2009
All in One SEO is awesome. It is so easy to make your Wordpress blogs SEO friendly. It also allows a lot of different options, which is really nice. I don't have the Sitemap Generator installed, but I will have to give it a shot.
January 7th, 2010
There also the onlywire submitter which sends your post to all social media websites in a snap:
http://cashcowhq.com/seo-tools/26-wordpress-plugi...
February 12th, 2010
I was copying this website for my SEO http://www.recentinside.com
February 13th, 2010
i found out that seo searchterms tagging 2 plugin
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/searchterms-t...
is really great to increase site serp and indexed page.
it's use search terms used by visitor from search engine to increase our on page seo ranking.
February 16th, 2010
All in One SEO is the best