2 Must Have Plugins To Help You Rank Better

Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 7:42 am

Plugins are one of the great things about using WordPress. Being able to easily change the way your blog works with out having to dig into the code is one of the great advantages.

These can be used to improve the way your blog works.

Today I want to talk about two that can help your blog be more search engine friendly for the terms you are targeting. The first is a plugin to edit your title tags called All In One SEO.

Now before I get into what this does and why you should use it lets discuss one of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in WordPress. There are thousands of plugins written by hundreds of different programmers and for most things there are multiple plugins that will work.

Unfortunately because there are so many plugin authors not all of them will play nice together. Although there are more than a few plugins that will do what All In One SEO does or at least something similar I recommend this one and all of the other plugins I use because they have been tested together with the current version of WordPress.

One of the downsides is that the package of plugins will change over time due to changes in the WordPress script, plugin authors not continuing to develop them, etc. So if you are coming to this post a few months from now check my blog here for any updates because the package of compatible plugins is always subject to change.

All In One SEO will allow you to change your title tags on your blog for each post so you can target the keywords you want to rank for with good titles. This will definitely allow you to rank higher for those terms over using generic title tags of WordPress.

The second must have plugin is Simple Tags. One of the biggest things I use this plugin for is to add related posts to each post. This is important because your visitors from the search engines are not coming to your home page but to your individual posts.

Having related posts on the same subject allows visitors to find items that may be similar and may actually be the answer they seek easily.

These are just two of five must have plugins that will be covered in much more detail on the free call on WordPress SEO this coming Wednesday along with a lot more information on many topics related to making your blog rank high in the search engines for the keywords you are targeting. Sign up and plan to attend.

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Hope to see you there.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

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