Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Top 10 SEO Plugins for WordPress

Today, there are numerous SEO plugins available on the internet which provide easy and effective SEO functionality in WordPress. These plugins can be easily used by the admin if he has a little knowledge about SEO.
WordPress is the most widely used open source web development platform for publishing content on the web. It is extensively used for creating blogs and content based websites. Search engine optimization is the only method of promoting your blogs, content and websites to the desired viewers. Everybody knows this and so does the WordPress community. Today, there are numerous SEO plugins available on the internet which provide easy and effective SEO functionality in WordPress. These plugins can be easily used by the admin if he has a little knowledge about SEO.  

We have listed below 10 most popular SEO plugins available for WordPress.
  1. All in One SEO Pack: All in One SEO Pack is among the most widely used SEO plugins available for WordPress. It is a complete SEO solution which automatically generates META tags, optimizes titles for search engines and provides extensive options for optimizing pages according to search engines.

  2. HeadSpace2: Another great SEO plugin that provides a complete solution for all your SEO requirements in WordPress. Provides the functionality of tags for each page, custom titles, meta tags etc. The Headspace 2 is available in multiple languages.

  3. Platinum SEO Plugin: The Platinum Plugin offers complete SEO solutions for WordPress websites. It also offers automatic 301redirects for permalink changes, auto meta tag generation, basic SEO features and some advanced options too.

  4. Google XML Sitemaps: The Google XML sitemap generates an XML sitemap for your website that is supported by major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask. The XML sitemap is very helpful in informing the crawlers about the content on your website. It efficiently presents the complete structure of your website for the crawlers to go through. Moreover, it also notifies major search engines whenever new content is posted on your site.

  5. SEO Slugs: The SEO Slug plugin removes irrelevant words from the long filenames automatically created for your posts. This makes your posts more SEO friendly.

  6. Automatic SEO Links: The Automatic SEO Link Plugin allows the admin to select a keyword or phrase and change all the matches in the post with a desired link. Provides easy Autolinking with various other features.

  7. WP Backlinks: This Plugin is very useful for link exchange purpose. Just install this plugin and a small form will appear on the sidebar which will allow bloggers and webmasters to submit links for exchange. The spider crawls other webmaster’s site for a reciprocal link and if found then the link on your site is approved. A very quick and efficient way of getting backlinks.

  8. 404 SEO Plugin: The 404 SEO Plugin is a very handy tool for situations when a user can’t find something he is looking for in your website. It presents a 404 page with all the relevant links based on the keywords in the search if no results are found.

  9. Simple Submit SEO/Social Bookmarking Plugin: This is a very handy SEO Plugin which adds submission links for Digg, Delicious, Buzz, and Stumble to pages and posts. The plugin also allows you to choose whether to display these links on the homepage, post page or anywhere else.

  10. SEO Friendly Images: There are usually a lot of images in a website and this tool allows admin to make these images SEO friendly by automatically adding ALT and Title to these images.
About the Author: This Post is brought to you by Chris Miller. Chris Miller is a web developers @ a leading Web development services company – Xicom Technologies. Xicom technologies provides web appliaction development, software development, IT outsourcing services, custom java, php, asp.net, mobile application development & outsourcing solutions.  

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