Last Night Wordpress 2.8.4 was out and day by day Wordpress is consuming a big market over the web development. Becoming more like a CMS than a basic Blogging Platform. Thanks to its Plugins, Wordpress is said to be the most customizable CMS till date. Here’s a crucial MUST HAVE list of Wordpress Plugins for Blog SEO :
ALL IN ONE SEO PACK
This plugin beefs up SEO modifications to your Wordpress blog to achieve Search Engine Optimization. Loads of Optimization on your finger tips.
Also check out this cool Post, Enk wrote about ALL IN ONE SEO Pack Usage.
GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS GENERATOR
This plugin creates a Google Sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap to help search engine spiders to crawl your content. Also works fine with other Search engines sitemap compliants.
BROKEN LINK CHECKER
Have you ever linked to a website that months later goes dead? This hurts your SEO. This plug-in notifies you immediately so that you can remove these dead ends.
SEO FRIENDLY IMAGES
Hope you guys have gone through Image Optimization post, this plugin automatically updates all your images with proper alt and title attributes – getting you more traffic from Google Image Search.
SEO SLUGS
earch engines ignore keywords such as “you” and “the”. Removing these keywords will. This plugin will automatically remove these unused common keywords for you – improving your search engine ranking.
CROSS-LINKER,
That automatically hyperlinks selected words to defined URLs. Very usefull to build and improve internal linking.
NO SELF-PINGS
Interlinking helps users stay on your blog, but can decreases your. This plugin removes all pingbacks from own site.
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Let me know what Plugins you recommend for Blog SEO ? Feel free to share your list with us !
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August 14th, 2009 at 12:43 am
This post was obviously written in a hurry.
SEO Slugs is particurlary effective.
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August 14th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Awesome, thanks for a great list! Frankly CMS’s in general suck at SEO, but with plugins wordpress gets pretty good. Now to learn how to become invisible to spammers:)
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August 14th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Pleasure making you happy with the Post.
About becoming invisible to Post, I don’t have anything right now to suggest but Akismet Plugin !
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August 14th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Broken Link Checker – never knew that one existed, I’m gonna check it out, thanks
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August 14th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Even I didn’t knew about Broken Link Checker and Cross Link. Nice list by Abhishek !
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August 17th, 2009 at 9:23 am
It a nice compilation of plugin’s for blog. The all plugin’s are very useful.
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August 18th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I’m not a giant fan of SEO slugs because it generates weird combinations at times. Nevertheless, I do have the rest of these plugins installed on my own blog. Great list Enk!
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August 30th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
My personal favourite is without doubt Broken Link Checker since it will not only help you with better SEO but also create a better site for your visitors since it will make all of your posts useful. I truly hate to visit a site where the author deliver an interesting post about a great tool simply to find it out of service or broken.
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September 1st, 2009 at 3:07 am
Totally agree on last point of yours Stefan, We find awesome freebie/link and lead to a broken link and that sucks!
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September 1st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Some plugin’s are really new for me like Link broker. I have bookmarked this list.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 am
Good list… I use most of them.. the Beauty of Thesis theme is that you do not need All in One SEO!
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September 5th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Really effective post for those who wants to do a good SEO for a wordpress blog. All in one SEO and XML Sitemap generator are now essential plugins, should come with Wordpress installation only.
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September 10th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
hey – thanks for the tips. Im currently using All in One SEO, and Google XML Sitemap Builder from your list. The broken links one sounds great.
As far as analyzing SEO results go, I use Ultimate Analytics – its the plugin for google analytics – works very well. Just dont get bogger down looking at stats for too long!
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September 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
nice list .. i am using almost 3 from this list.
Good article. Cheers !
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November 11th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Thanks a lot for the plugin list. I use the top 2 youve mentioned here and LOVE them! The Google sitemaps generator is particularly cool how it updates itself!
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