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Guest post by Alex Stetson
So which are the Best WordPress Plugins for SEO in 2010? Within the past year, a lot of changes have been implemented that have affected how search engine optimization works. The growth of social media sites, Google’s “Caffeine,” “Real Time Search,” and “Personalized Search,” are a few of the primary catalysts.
Best WordPress SEO Plugins
I believe the following WordPress plugins are especially relevant and valuable for search engine optimization in 2010.
- SEO Smart Links – This SEO-friendly plugin can automatically link keywords and phrases to related comments, posts, pages, and categories within your site. This makes less prominent pages or older content more relevant and crawl-able for search engines, and keeps site visitors engaged. It also lets you set “nofollow” tags on URL’s and create custom keyword lists with automated URL hyperlinks for individual terms.
- I Love Social Bookmarking - I.L.S.B. is a great way to encourage blog readers to rank your post on popular social media sites. In the past year, sites like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and Sphinn have become major resources for driving relevant traffic to quality site content. This plug in inserts an attractive drop-down menu next to your blog posts that allows readers to submit or rank your site content on a number of popular social media sites, without leaving your blog.
- WP to Twitter —Twitter is an ideal space for (viral) content sharing since users are constantly engaged in niche conversations. Now that Google’s Social Search indexes tweets at the top of SERP’; more tweets/retweets = more indexing power. WP to Twitter is a plugin that automatically tweets a tiny URL link to new blog posts or blog edits on your site. Without any additional effort, your content is distributed to a relevant, willing audience; this can drive relevant traffic and increase your presence in social search results.
- WP-Super-Cache —This plug in contributes to your site speed and it helps your blog load faster. The number of pages on your blog that a search engine will index on a daily basis increases with speed. If indexing each page is a quicker endeavor, more pages will be indexed. WP-Super-Cache creates static html pages from your WordPress blog so your server will present this file instead of the much denser PHP script. This will also help fortify your server when it is receiving a high amount of traffic, which can result from all your other great SEO strategies! This is because this plug in serves a static html page to 99% of your site visitors.
- Robots Meta — Robots Meta automatically inserts “nofollow” tags on internal site links that are irrelevant to search crawlers; this keeps search engines from wasting time indexing unimportant pages like results, login, and admin pages, instead directing crawlers to index primary site content.
- SEO Slug — Blog post titles typically get an h1-h3 heading, which makes them very important in terms of keyword optimization. SEOSlug optimizes blog post titles to improve search engine visibility by editing keyword strings. It removes conjunctions from titles, (words like “as” and “if”) to allow crawlers to more readily crawl main content keywords as a fluid string.
Guest blogger Alex Stetson works for a Boston-based digital media firm that specializes in web design, web application design, user interface web design, and internet marketing. You can also submit guest posts and share your favorite WordPress plugins.
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I used to be a fan of Super Cache, but lately I’ve been using W3 Total Cache, which uses memcache and APC. This makes load time a lot faster and much more effective for the user as it’s a better browsing experience.
SEO Smart Links is definitely a great plugin too, we actively use that as well.
I was having trouble getting the “Robots Meta” working on WordPress 2.9.1, where it would constantly stay on “index follow” and would not allow me to select other options.
Has anyone had any issues for the same version?
Many plug-ins have been issued. I hope the plug-in is really useful for SEO.
Thanks for the tips.. it is always great to know the latest plug-ins for wordpress!
This is a great information. I will surely give the smart links plug-in a try to improve the linking between my posts.
I was really hoping this was going to be different then the other 30 posts I have seen on this same topic over the last 2 months and it is, I opened 4 of those plugins, I’m sure I will be installing them all. Love this blog!
Great list. Thank you. I am moving from blogger to wordpress becoz of SEO problems of blogger. This could help me a lot. Thanks again.
Now I know the 6 best plugins in wordpress. Those 6 plugins are how to generate the traffic for your blog, how to build a quality backlinks, how to load fast your wordpress blog and the most important is how to protect your wordpress blog from spammers. Those 6 plugins of WordPress are looks fitted to the latest algorithm of Google.
The best plugin from your list is All in one SEO. I have been using it for years and its been working great so far. I like the fact that the developer keeps updating it and improving it.
Try another SEO plugin that offers more functionality than All-in-one-SEO called Headspace2
is it bad strategy to use too many SEO plugins like all in one seo headspace platinum seo etc ? me confused guys …
Great post for plugins for SEO. I keep searching these kind of posts and happy to find it. I am goint to install all the above plugins.
i will give the presentation in my school on the search engine (google). so i need some data about google such that as
1) meaning of google.
2) the word google derived from.
3 history of google.etc
For your three questions why don’t you try googling it?! No one here is going to spoonfeed you with the answers. You’ve got a whole wealth of information at your fingertips but instead you waste your time posting on a site for answers?!
I especially like WP-Super-Cache. Glad to see I’m not the only Plugin Addict out there. I’m going to try a couple of these out.
I’ve found a plugin that I was looking for, namely the WP to Twitter. Plugin is in my opinion helps get traffic, and create a lot of backlinks.
regards
thankz .. its a realy good and best wordpress plugin.
and i use it
I am SEO Employer in the firm. Thank you to sharing the resourceful Article. i hope it is used for job.And word press plug in is awesome.
I love the SEO All-In-One plugin.
Very helpful list, thanks!
An alternative to the All In One SEO plugin that I found is Greg’s High Performance SEO…seems to be an awesome solution.
Great list, im surprised you don’t have the related posts plugin that can really help in building internal backlinks.
ya this tool tool is very useful thanks for your postings.
fantabulous post .. thanks for sharing .. :)
So confused, many different opinion about seo plugins, anyway thanks for the info.
thanx for sharing this is good
Thank you for this list of plugins! I was getting tired of trying to throw out keywords/test plugins on our site. Most of what you have listed here is exactly the stuff I was looking for.
Really lot of info and it will be useful for my new site.