15 Top SEO WordPress Plugins

There are a lot of blogs to there and to more exact let say the numbers are somewhere in the area of 100 million. What makes or breaks a blog is content and how people get to your content. It is tough finding a post you are looking for out of 100 million+ blogs in existence. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing will be your best friends. After you have the content then its time for the next step which is getting people to your content. Search Engine Optimization is key to a blog to get exposure and also depends on how relevant your content is to specific search queries.

WordPress is a very popular blogging platform used by millions of blogs. If your blog or websites dosen’t have good SEO (search engine optimization) you won’t have any readers. The positive side is if you use WordPress as your blogging platform you are in luck. WordPress has a very large plugin community and has many plugins to help you out. We have found the top 15 SEO plugins to help you make your blog or website SEO ready. Many of the plugins below let you customize tags, titles, descriptions and more.

Let us know what you think of these outstanding SEO plugins for wordpress and if you have a plugin that you think should be here, let us know in the comments

All In One SEO Pack

All in One SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins. This plugin dose everything for you when it comes to search engine optimization from choosing post title, keywords, tags, duplicated content and more.

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SEO Ultimate

SEO Ultimate is an all-in-one SEO plugin with these powerful features for search engine optimization. Some of the features of this plugin are title rewriter, no index manager, meta editor, canonicalizer (Point search engines to preferred content), 404 Monitor, link box Inserter, slug optimizer and more.

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Automatic SEO Links

Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase to automatically link in your posts or pages. This works both for internal link and external. Additional features include adding a “nofollow” attribute, setting anchor text and more.

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HeadSpace2

This plugin allows you to install all sorts of meta-data, add specific JavaScript and CSS to pages, suggests tags for your posts and a whole lot more.

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Platinum SEO Plugin

Platinum SEO is similar to All In One SEO and can work along with other search engine optimization plugins. but has several additional features like turning off page title, page description, automatically add relevant meta tags and more.

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SEO Blogroll

Do you worry that the people you link to in your blogroll are feeding off of your PageRank? With SEO Blogroll you can make separate sections for various groupings of links, with an unlimited number in each, and all of them will receive the “nofollow” attribute.

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SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings

ome themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree. In other words, h2 becomes h3, h3 becomes h4 and so on.

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SEO Friendly Images

Images are a great source of traffic as people search for images for subjects. This plugin helps you makes your images had proper “alt” and “title” tags to make easier for index by search engines.

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Simple Tags

Simple Tags is a very popular WordPress plugin and focuses on helping you picking the best tags for your posts by offering suggestions. Some of the features are auto-completion tags as you type, AJax admin interface, mass tag editing and much more.

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Google XML Sitemaps

This sitemap generator is key to create a XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, Bing, Yahoo and Google as well. Sitemaps make it easy for search engines to crawl your pages and index them because the sitemap lets the search engine know where the pages of your website are and how they link to each other, in other words it is like the roadmap to your site.

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Meta Robots WordPress plugin

Meta tags are importtant for search engines to know what your website is about and the content of your website or specific page. Meta Robots plugin is a easy solution for adding meta data to any page you choose on your blog. This plugin can be used also to add “nofollow” attributes to your front page to prevent indexing of yu search pages, author pages, date-based archives, login pages and more.

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Sitemap Generator

This plugin lets your sitemaps be more customizable by generating XML sitemap specific to the options you pick. It supports the option of choosing multi-level categories, pages, category/page exclusion, permalink support, what to display and more.

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SEO Title Tag

Your tags are an important part of your site for making sure that search engines know where to place your posts, and SEO Title Tag focuses exclusively on this. Unlike some other plugins, and WordPress itself, this extension will allow you to add tags to your pages, your main page and even any URL anywhere on your site.

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SEO Tag Cloud Widget

Tags are important for blogs but this plugin make then SEO-friendly with HTML markup so they can be indexed.

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SEO Post Link

Post slugs is the title you see in your browser URL bar and when the title is too long, search engines dont like it and probably won’t index that page. SEO Post Link comes already full loaded with a populated list of words to shrink down your url to make it search engine optimized.

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Below are additional SEO plugins for WordPress:
-SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin
If you must have duplicate content on your site for whatever reason, SEO No Duplicate will allow you to state which version of the post search engines should index while ignoring the others.

-SEO for Paged Comments
Paged Comments plugin for WordPress is outstanding to fix the problem of search engines thinking you have duplicated content because of each post appearing on each page. Paged comments was first introduced in WordPress 2.7 and still remains a problem until WordPress corrects this issue but until that happens this plugin will help you correct this problem.

-Redirection
Redirections are great if you ever need to move a page to another spot on your blog. Sometimes this leads to losing that page’s status in search results and sometimes pagerank for that particular page. This WordPress plugin helps you with your 301 redirects and if you get several 404 error pages you can work on correcting them with this plugin. Personally it is very helpful to correct errors because search engines hate error pages more then your vistors probably do.

-TGFI.net SEO WordPress Plugin
This plugin will do all the work usually the SEO part for optimizing titles and keywords. This plugin is very helpful for people who use WordPress as a CMS.

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