Top SEO Plugins For WordPress

Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 1:19 am

Today’s question is on plugins. Plugins allow you to add functionality to your blog and improve what your blog can do. Because there are a lot of different things that plugins can do this will end up being a multi part post.

This is the last of the questions I have received so if you have a question on WordPress or blogging you would like answered leave it in the comments below.

What are you top plugin choices for WP?

I will be addressing this in a few parts. The first item that you need plugins for is improving your SEO. Basic WordPress code can be made much more search engine friendly with a few plugins.

My favorites are…

All In One SEO
Simple Tags
WP Tags To Technorati
Google XML Sitemap
MaxBllogPress Ping Optimizer

All In One SEO – This plugin will allow you to create custom title tags and as title tags are probably one of the top ways to improve your on page SEO.

Simple Tags – Tags are an important part of your on page SEO and this plugin allows you to add related posts too. This allows you to create some nice interior linking and allow people to find more information from your blog on the same topic.

WP Tags To Technorati – Technorati is the oldest and used to be the largest blog search engine although since Google has their own that may not be the case.

Google XML Sitemap – Having and submitting a sitemap to the main search engines makes your site easier to get indexed and makes it easier for the spiders to index all of your pages.

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer – Over pinging your blog is easy to do with the standard WordPress install if you edit posts and this will stop you from doing that and getting banned as a spammer from the various ping directories.

That’s all for this portion of plugins I use and remember that your questions and comments are welcomed.