The biggest collection of Wordpress SEO plugins that can multiply your blog traffic
All of us bloggers know a thing or two about blog SEO. Organic Search Engine traffic is the most “genuinely good” kind of traffic that you can receive for two reasons. One - it doesn’t die soon if someone else doesn’t put it out and Two - It’s totally FREE! So without further a due, let me present to you the result of one of my biggest list hunts ever…
It’s the biggest collection of Wordpress SEO plugins, ever compiled - to date.
Add Meta Tags Wordpress Plugin
What it does: This plugin adds XHTML META tags to your WordPress blog. The addition of the META tags is fully automatic , but it also includes all those features a SEO-concerned publisher would need in order to have total control over those meta tags. You can add META tags to single posts, archive pages, static pages and everything else. Customizability is bit of an issue with these plugins.
Download: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/add-meta-tags-wordpress-plugin/
All in One SEO Pack
Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines and Generates META tags automatically. This is my personal favorite. If you’re too lazy to generate META tags, you can let the plugin do it for you. If not, you can always customize them individually and suit them according to SERPs.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Another Wordpress Meta Plugin
The name says it all. Allows you to do the basic configurations of All in one SEO Pack. If you’re not happy with All in one SEO pack (though I can not think of a good reason for that), you can always use this META tags plugin to give your Wordpress SEO a boost.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/another-wordpress-meta-plugin/
Bad Behavior Wordpress Plugin
Simply put, this one keeps the naughty spam bots out of your Wordpress blog. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for keeping unwanted blog, wiki, forum, guestbook and referrer spam away from your site. All these bots that are posting your content on splogs will have no entry to your blog. But do keep your eyes open since some users have claimed it also blocks a few useful bots to your site too.
Download: http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.
Download: http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
Excerpt Editor
This eliminates one of the biggest SEO headaches - Content Duplication. Excerpt Editor provides a convenient place for creating and editing all excerpts. It can also add custom excerpts for pages (not possible without a plugin). Features: auto-creating excerpts when publishing new Posts and Pages, displaying customisable excerpts from the content for posts without an excerpt, appending excerpts from the latest posts to each Post or from the sub-pages to each Page, replacing the content for all archive and tags pages with excerpts.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/
FeedSmith Plugin for Feedburner
What can I say? The effect might be minimal. But if you’re using FeedBurner, it’s a classic!
Download: http://orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress-feedburner-plugin/
Category magic Wordpress Plugin
Categories are very helpful if you’re into Advanced SEO techniques such as siloing. Don’t ask me what that is - it’s best that you don’t know - Just kidding 
Category Magic allows you to do many magical things with categories. For example, it can display links to posts from a single category and even a random category. There are several plugins that can do that. Category Magic does more.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-magic/
Google Positioner
This is one of the coolest and most underrated Wordpress SEO plugins ever! After putting the right keywords in the right page, it is imperative to keep track of your keyword performance. With this handy-dandy plugin it is now possible to track your website for your keywords in Google. You can track through multiple regions and keep an eye on the competitors also…
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-google-seo-positioner/
Google Sitemap Generator Wordpress Plugin
I’ve mentioned this plugin countless times in my posts. This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. It’s an absolute must have if you’re running a Wordpress blog - and if you’re serious about your SEO traffic. Refer to this article if you don’t know anything about making it work.
Download: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/
HeadMeta Plugin
Yet another Meta Plugin for you. HeadMeta creates <meta> “description” or “keywords” tags for individual posts or pages. It can also create arbitrary <meta> or <link> tags. These are easily set on a per-post (or page) basis by simply adding Custom Fields.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headmeta/
Karailiev’s sitemap
For some reason, if you’re not too happy with the Google Sitemap Generator, this will most definitely help. This plugin adds a XML sitemap to your blog. It’s used to show all your pages and posts to the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Doesn’t have as much configuration facilities as Google Sitemap Generator, but a worthwhile alternative.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/karailievs-sitemap/
KB Robots.txt Wordpress Plugin
When robots (like the Googlebot) crawl your site, they begin by requesting http://example.com/robots.txt and checking it for special instructions. Use this plugin to create and edit your robots.txt file from within Wordpress (using Options -> Robots.txt). It’s a simple plugin that let’s you edit Robots.txt within your Wordpress blog.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kb-robotstxt/
Nofollow Links in Posts
Nofollow Links in Posts plugin enables you to add the “nofollow” attribute into links in a post within a specified category. This plugin is useful if you are doing sponsored posts. You can set the plugin to add the “nofollow” attribute for posts older than “X” days.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-links-in-posts/
Objection Redirection Wordpress Plugin
Redirects posts from what you don’t want to want you want. Also helpful if you’re trying to eradicate duplicated content in your blog. But the setting are a wee bit hard to grasp at first. Give it a couple of minutes’ concentrated attention and you’d do just fine.
Download: http://www.biggnuts.com/objection-redirection-wordpress-plugin/
Optimal Title
Rectifies one of the biggest SEO drawbacks of the default Wordpress settings. Optimal Title is a WordPress plugin that mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before. This allows you to have your blog name tacked on to the end of the page title instead of having it appear first. Which means. Title of your post, will appear before the blog’s name.
Download: http://elasticdog.com/2004/09/optimal-title/
Permalink Redirect
A WordPress plugin that replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archive’s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry. Another great way to save your PR from duplicated content.
Download: http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/
Permalink Validator Wordpress Plugin
Of all the Permalink Redirection plugins to save your from Search bots mistakenly assuming that your blog has duplicated content, this is the best. Does a lot of SEO modifications to your Wordpress blog, automatically, which would take several minutes and very high risk .htaccess edits - including, adding trailing back-slash if missing, adding or removing www prefix according to your permalink structure and forcing a correct 404 page instead of showing an empty search result when using an invalid URL.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalink-validator/
Platinum SEO Pack
Yet another alternative to the legendary All in one SEO which actually lives up to the term ‘alternative’. Has many of the All in one SEO features and more. Optimizing Post and Page Titles for search engines, Overriding any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page, adding index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, noydir meta tags to any post/page - are just a few.
Download: http://techblissonline.com/platinum-seo-pack/
Really Simple Sitemap Wordpress Plugin
Does what the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator does - which is building a simple HTML sitemap for your blog. But, it’s not so customizable as I would like it to be.
Download: http://www.internetwealthmaster.com/wordpress-really-simple-sitemap/
Redirection plugin for Wordpress
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.
Download: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/
Robots Meta Plugin
You don’t really need this if you’ve go the Platinum SEO Pack. But, if you’re using All in one SEO, this might come in handy because it makes the All in one SEO plugin complete with the Robots Meta tags - which by the way helps robots when they are indexing your Wordpress blog.
Download: http://yoast.com/wordpress/robots-meta/
SEO Friendly Images Wordpress Plugin
SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well. ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match. TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.
Download: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-friendly-images
SEO Post Link
The SEO Post Link makes your post link short and SEO friendly. It removes common words that are unnecessary for search engine optimization of your blog post link. It doesn’t shorten your slug in a random manner. It only deletes the words which are not important in terms of SEO.
Download: http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/spl/
SEO Slugs Wordpress Plugin
The SEO Slugs Wordpress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization. Another alternate to the SEO Post Link Plugin.
Download: http://www.vretoolbar.com/news/seo-slugs-wordpress-plugin
SEO Title Tag
Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization (”SEO“). It blows my mind how post titles are also used as title tags by WordPress, considering that post titles should be catchy, pithy, and short-and-sweet; whereas title tags should incorporate synonyms and alternate phrases to capture additional search visibility. SEO Title Tag makes is dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website.
Download: http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/
Subdomains by Category
This Wordpress plugin turns all your categories into subdomains. It works on your post permalinks too. Only use this if your host supports it and only use this IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING. The advantage of having subdomains is that Search Engines tend to give subdomains more value than permalinks.
Download: http://wordpress-plugins.biggnuts.com/wordpress-subdomains-plugin/
WordPress Tweaks
WordPress Tweaks is a powerful yet simple plugin to help you push the boundaries of WordPress by fine-tuning its many aspects. This multi-purpose plugin specializes in simple toggle-on/off changes. It adds many useful settings pertaining to comments, posts, SEO, security, the administration back-end, and much more. Some tweaks can even replace plugins that you may already have installed.
Download: http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/plugins/tweaks/
WP Page Numbers Wordpress Plugin
With page numbers instead of next and previous links users can easily navigate much quicker to the page they want. It is good for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as well, because it creates a tighter inner link structure.
Download: http://www.jenst.se/2008/03/29/wp-page-numbers
WP_LinkTools Wordpress Plugin
Publicize your posts and pages by adding the to the social bookmarking site Delicious, automatically as soon as you post them. It’s one of my personal favorites and a quick Del.icio.us link building super weapon. Highly recommended!
Download: http://www.dcoda.co.uk/index.php/tag/wp_linktools/
All of these plugins have the potential to boost your Search Engine Rankings with a little bit of analysis. However, as any SEO would tell you, don’t just install the plugin and wait for the magic to happen. If you’re trying to get on top of something and maintain it, you have to experiment and evolve.
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Ugh…… so many
Now I’m confused as to what to use and what’s not lol
WP is sooo good to be a blogging platform. There are sooooo many plugins we can used. Ang here are the best collections of plugins I ever found. Thanks..
Thanks for your kind words. I’m glad you found it interesting and useful.
I already have “all in one SEO pack installed”
Can’t it do the complete SEO job ? If not what other plugings should I use. I downloaded few already from your web site. But not sure which one’s to use with All in one SEO.
I’d love to get more organic traffic. I am already getting some from Google but it is only around 5% of the total visitors. I thought of out sourcing a SEO job when my blog reaches 3 months in operation . Do you think it is a good idea or can I get the job done from these plugins?
Eranda
The thing is, if All in one SEO could do the complete job, it would be the only plugin that you need - which, in this case, it proves not to be. The plugins that you should use depend on your SEO strategy. But giving a simple answer to your question Eranda, for a more comprehensive SEO job, I’d recommend the Ultimate SEO Plugin.
Well, what outsourcing agencies basically do is doing all the hard work that we are too lazy to do. It’s a good thing to outsource if you are sure that the investment is worth the return. But if not, it’s best that you spend that money to take some SEO courses.
This is a great list of WordPress plug-ins. I can of enjoyed it more.it is pretty easy to find good plug-ins though by going to the WordPress homepage.
Great list, but I am missing Headspace2 that you can download at
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/.
If you would choose Headspace2 as your main SEO Plugin, you can loose the plugins like All-in-One-SEO, SEO Title tags and some others too.
Its not the most easy one to work with at the beginning, but it has some really great options allready build in, and it has even an import function for some of the plugins you mentioned.
A huge list…
I am using atleast 5-6 of the ones listed above. but can’t use all otherwise the blog will become slow lol
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Thanks for your kind words. I’m glad you found it interesting and useful.