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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July 6th, 2009
Np. Yes, it works fine with 2.8.
July 6th, 2009
Blimey Danno… that was a quick reply.
Thanks.
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.
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 16th, 2010
All in One SEO is the best
March 15th, 2010
i agree all in one SEO and sitemap generator is the best and wanted plugin for wordpress …i prefer thesis theme is the killer wordpress theme http://technicalstatus.com/2010/03/seo-wordpress-theme-thesis/
March 25th, 2010
all in one SEO plugin is very good, because its easy and its quick to make wordpress SEO friendly.
thanks for sharing your idea's and thoughts with us:)
June 2nd, 2010
Good call on those two plugins, they are pretty much "must haves"!
I like the Ping Optimizer too, because I tend to tweak posts and pages alot so that plugin helps over-pinging and getting labeled as a spammer.
June 16th, 2010
Whats the difference between 'pro' and the 'basic' version of all in one seo.
Should I get the pro version ?
July 6th, 2010
nice post! these 2 plugins are really very essential . i always install them.
July 12th, 2010
C'est une réalité . WordPress fait gagner un tout fou a tout le monde
August 1st, 2010
I prefer Google XML sitemap plugin ;)
August 10th, 2010
i'm very much happy with the sitemap generator plugin.
September 4th, 2010
I tried both all in one seo and platinum seo but they both did funky things with my homepage title that i couldn't resolve. so i just wrote my own little php script that adds meta-description tags, which is all i wanted. (i have to add a custom metadata thingy to my post). oh, really, i modified someone else's php script that i found online.
September 4th, 2010
Missing data all in one seo pack is also a good plugin because it will give you a complete view of all in seo plugins.In case if you have missed meta tags for some of your posts it will notify you about those.
September 6th, 2010
Thank you about this plugin tips =) I will definitely use that sitegenerator plugin at my website.