The dream and passion of every blogger is to get more traffic and the most search-able blog in any search engine. When anyone makes a search on any search engine such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. it is being indexed on the first page so that anyone can easily being notified “what the content he was in search of”. But you never know the way how you make this impossible thing happen, what measures and techniques will you adopt to make this possible? That’s the question everyone is searching, but none of them will be able to provide the correct answers to it. And still it remains the dream and all the efforts you made go in vain.
Now the question which is to be asked here is that how people will be able to find your content on the internet? The key to all this is Search Engine Optimization. Search engine optimization is an art and a science that help search engine to discover your content and helps in understanding how relevant and valuable asset it is to specific search queries. As every blogger have heard the name SEO (search engine optimization) and only few of them know it exactly, rest of them only knew that name. For a new blogger Search Engine Optimization is very daunting and creates a pain in their minds. I’m not going to explain the good and bad effects of each of SEO tactics in detail. You can easily find more info on the web, if you want to do some research.
We all know that Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform and with so many plugins it is a favorite one to start blogging. Wordpress helps the search engine in a pretty decent manner “what is going on your blog”. Again, another question arises how Wordpress Plugin will help you in getting more traffic and being the most search-able blog? This question can be answered in a simple and easier way. I would like to say Thanks to the Wordpress plugin community values SEO and has developed a number of plugins to help you out there. As I have already specified the 10 wordpress plugin in comment management earlier, now I would like to specify some of the plugins on SEO
This is one of the most popular and handy plugin ever for Wordpress. This pack includes most efficient SEO plugins that enables you to perform most SEO functions. This plugin allows you to control the Page titles, Meta tags, Keywords and Descriptions. This plugin allow you to configure your entire blog or in a post by post basis. It also allows you to tag posts with categories. Besides all these, it helps you in choosing the best post title so as to avoid duplicate content and more. In a nutshell this plugin optimizes your Wordpress blog for search engines. With all these features it becomes one of the basic essential SEO plugin for any Wordpress blogger.
We all know that by default all the search engine crawls and index all the web pages present on the web. Why they do so? They do this, so as to prevent duplicate content is present or not. If a duplicate content is found you will be get punished by search engines without knowing it. This plugin helps you from getting rid of this problem. How? This plugin adds Meta tags onto your Wordpress pages and prevents your search results pages by adding “noinidex follow robots Meta tags” which helping the search engine to follow these links. This plugin allows you to tell the search engine which sections of your blog to crawl. This will result in getting more respect from search engines and more traffic to your blog. It offers a lot of
Features such as
- It prevents indexing of the subpages to your homepage, author pages and category pages.
- It stops the indexing of your login, admin and register pages.
- It also stops indexing your comments feeds and makes the archives related to authors and date inactive.
- It prevents Page Rank by using nofollow category listings o posts and single pages.
Title tags are one of the most important things in terms of SEO (search engine optimization). SEO Title Tag makes it easy to optimize the title tags across your Wordpress-powered blog or website. It just not changes your post, not just your home page Post but nay and every title tag on your site titles should be catchy, pithy and short-and-sweet; whereas title tags should incorporate synonyms and alternate phrases to capture additional search visibility.
Features
- Mass editing of title tags for all posts, static pages, category pages, tag pages, tag conjunction pages, archive by month pages, indeed any URL-all in one go.
- Define a custom title tag for your home page
- Define the title tag of 404 error pages
- Handle internal search result pages too.
- Title tags of category pages can optionally be set to the category description.
One of the most important things you must know is, “how much pretty is your internal linking structure”. This is one of the major issues with SEO. The more you link to a certain page on your blog, the more important it is your overall content. Search engines treat your internal links as an indication of how well structured your site/blog is. The problem is that if you had to manually to create links to relevant and important posts you’ll spend long hours and hours doing it. This can be done by using SEO Smart Link; it helps you in linking a post on your site/blog. After all this, when each time the word SEO appears on your site, it’s automatically turned into a link you specified.
Every time you browse net you learn something. When you visit any site/blog you find some extra features and you want to include this. In including this you make some changes on your blog time to time. Sometimes these changes results in breaking your permalink structure. This often happens with everyone when you make a any change to an old post, or upgrading your Wordpress to a newer version and make some changes in the permalinks. We all know that each post has a unique URL, called as Permalink. When this permalink changes, visitors who go to that post won’t be able to find it. Then this redirection Plugin helps you to come out of these problems by redirecting the visitor to the new permalink. Advantage of using this plugin is that, it reduces the amount of traffic you get to pages that don’t exist.
We all know that in blogging, how important is to use images in your post/article. These images help you in getting a reader attraction. How would we neglect the word SEO in using these images? Yes it is true that images play a vital and important role in SEO strategy. So it’s important for you to tag them correctly and accurately. SEO friendly images helping you to allow this and saves your hours of work in searching those images. As many of the bloggers use images in posts so this becomes one of the essential and an important plugin to have.
This is one of the major and most important tools in any of the blogger’s armory of SEO tools collection. Google (a name that I respect) creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also. It adds Captcha anti-spam methods to Wordpress on the various forms such as comment, registration respectively. This plugin supports all of the Wordpress generated pages as well as custom ones. When you are posting a new post/article or editing an older post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol are notified about that update.
We all know that stop words are ignored by search engines and Wordpress automatically assigns a long filename to your post slug. This will not be correct according to SEO point of view. Therefore, SEO Slugs come as a rescue which optimizes your blog post URLs for search engines by omitting the uncommon words from your post/article URLs for search engine. SEO slugs strips common words out of your post slug to make it more search engine friendly. This plugin don’t write anything on an existing slug. You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one. It will automatically remove the stop words from the permalink, helping you to rank better.
Broken links on your Wordpress blog becomes the dead ends for search engines bots. Let’s say you have written a post with a website name http://www.domainname.com, and after sometime website goes down due to bandwidth limitation or any other reason such as links get broken, page is deleted, subdirectory forgotten, a site moved to a different domain, you will never had information of this and that post will be of no use and it open’s the gates of dead ends for your blog. But you not need to worry as Broken Link Checker plugin comes very handy and useful in these situations. This plugin shows a broken link on your dashboard from where you can unlink it. This plugin will act as a gatekeeper for your blog which monitors broken links and lets you know if they are found. By default the links of all old posts are re-checked every 72 hours, or you can set a different time period.
It is a powerful all-in-one-plugin to manage meta-data and manage a wide range of SEO tasks that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site. With the help of this plugin you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages. It offers various functions and provides a full set of modules that allows you to configure your site/blog according to your wish without the need of several plugins because everything is contained within one consistent interface. Due to large number of meta-data plgins, HeadSpace provides an import function. It also allows you to add:
- Google Analytics
- Google section targeting
- Mint statistic
- 103bees
- Stat counter
- Crazy Egg heat map
- Feed burner Stats Pro
- Apture
- Microsoft Live Verification
- Hit Tail
- Piwik tracking
- Aw Stats tracking
All these plugins are important in terms of SEO and getting better traffic from search engines will help you to boost your blog. By this much amount of traffic you’ll get better income, better rank, and finally able to build a better brand.
I have not covered all of them, so please include your favorites and why in the comments below. If you like this article don’t forget to subscribe to blog feed. You can also follow me on Twitter and add me as a friend on Facebook. Don’t forget to share this post via various social media sites.
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nice resource on seo plugins for wordpress, i use quite a few of those already, like the redirection plugin that i find really very useful. apart from that will also check out the broken link finder, never knew that there is a plugin for it, thanks,
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Thanks mate for appreciating my work. You will find more useful information here in the coming time. Broken link finder is one of the best plugin to tell you where the link is broken, without this plugin you never know where the link is broken and from seo point of view broken links are bad and cause harm to your blog.
woow very nice and lucrative info i am using Google xml sitemaps and planning to get other intalled too
Thanks Sunderqaz for appreciating my efforts all of these plugins are good
Thanks buddy.. or providing us this very useful information.
As a blogger, this material is very useful for me to enhance my traffic and also search terms..
Its a pleasure to help you out. Selection of plugins is always a horrible task for anyone. Keep in touch to get more information