Top 5 SEO plugins for Wordpress
Here is a tried and self-tested list of great Wordpress plugins with personal evaluations:
All in One SEO Pack - My first plugin to install on a Wordpress site, allows the editing of descriptions, keywords, and setting how you want your titles created, lots of fine tuning if you want to, if not, it has a good default setup that will leave your site in good hands as it is.
- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META keywords automatically, or you can enter specific ones.
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs by adding noindex to archives, categories etc.
SEO Master - A lot like All in one SEO pack and contains the following modules:
- Meta Module
- Nofollow Module
- Noindex Module
- AutoLinker Module
I disable all but the nofollow module, since the All in one SEO pack does the rest, and is better at it. The nofollow module allows you to choose whether to have nofollow on links in your current post or not, as well as global settings for the site, like homepage and footer. Very useful and haven’t seen others that allow you to vary nofollow on or off like this.
Google XML Sitemaps - Automatically creates and updates your sitemap, while notifying the search engines of the change to your site also, a simple and great plugin thats easy to work.
Sociable - Adds links on your posts or pages to popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, StumbleUpon and many many others. You can choose what sites and how many links are included from a large list, small icons and presented well!
Headspace2 - A lot like the All in one SEO Pack but with one amazing feature; auto-tag generation, not meta-tags but the tags you see below the post! This feature worked well and was great to use, but I had problems with the rest of the plugin. Despite setting the format I wanted the titles of my posts in, it would put my blog title before all of this, as if it wasn’t editable, which I’m sure it was.. After exhausting all avenues I went back to All in one SEO pack, but if you could get this working properly, you would have a really great alternative to it.
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