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SEO Plugins - Which ones should I use?

By Mike | June 22, 2008

Today’s question:

what plugins, specially SEO does one really need and how to configure them

First one of the things to understand is that WordPress is a fluid environment. New plugins come - plugins disappear. WordPress itself goes through a major change every 3 - 6 months as they constantly improve things. So the list today could each change tomorrow because of changes in either WordPress itself or support from a plugins author.

That is one of the reasons that I have updated the 7 Tips To Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly three times in the last year. And it will probably happen at least once more this year. It will depend on the changes in the platform.

That being said here is what I am using today.

All of those get installed by uploading them to the wp-content/plugins folder then logging in to your dashboard and activating them.

In order I don’t usually add any special settings to the All In One SEO or All in One Bookmarking.

The Google XML Sitemaps you should take the time to build the first one and may have to temporarily change permissions to get the first build done. If you do make sure that you turn the permissions back once you have successfully built the initial site map.

Simple Tags I don’t make changes unless you want to use the in post linking feature.

Smart Update Pinger does not take any changes unless you have never updated your ping list. You can add to your ping list directly through the settings there.

WP tags to Technorati - I do add the check box in the Open links in a new window. (I hate to have people leave and depend on them using the back button .The rest are the defaults.