WordPress Plugins needed to Optimize your Blog for Search Engines
ADVERTISEMENTSThe following Wordpress Plugins will help you Optimize your Blog for Search Engines.
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Head Meta Description - Head Meta Description allows you to add dynamic meta description automatically by extracting the first few words from your post. So it’s important to place your most important keywords in the first paragraph so that they are picked by this plugin.
Download Head Meta Description
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SEO Title Tag - Title tags are one of the most important on-page factors for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This WordPress plugin, SEO Title Tag, addresses several limitations in creating Search Engine Optimized title tags for blog posts and for Pages in the WordPress blogging platform. It allows you to optimize your WordPress blog’s Title tags in ways not supported by the default WordPress installation.Features include:
- Allows you to override a page’s or a post’s title tag with a custom one defined through a custom field
- Allows you to define a custom home page title through the Options -> SEO Title Tag page in the WordPress Admin
- Reverses the order of the blog name and the title. This gives more keyword prominence to the title instead of the blog name. Or you can even drop the blog name altogether or replace it with a shorter nickname
- Puts the tag name in the title of ‘Ultimate Tag Warrior‘ tag pages
- Uses a Category’s description as the title tag on Category pages
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Ultimate Tag Warrior - Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) is a tagging plugin for WordPress designed to increase the functions for tagging posts and expanding site navigation through the creation of lists of tags.
How does this plugin help to Optimize your Blog for Search Engines?
Ultimate Tag Warrior let’s you include your tags as Meta Keywords in the header of tag pages and single post pages. To enable this, login to your Admin panel > Options and then click ‘Tags’ to enter the configuration page of UTW. From there tick ‘Include meta keywords’ found under ‘Meta Keywords’.
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All in One SEO Pack - This plugin optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines by letting you
- define your home page title, description and keywords
- define your post, page, category, archive, tag and search title formats
- use categories for META keywords
- avoid indexing of duplicate content (prevents indexing of category, archive and tag archive pages)
- autogenerate descriptions
If you decide to use All in One SEO Pack, remember to disable Head Meta Description, SEO Title Tag and Ultimate Tag Warrior Meta Keyword feature as this plugin does all that these plugins do and much more! Click here for more info on All in One SEO Pack plugin.
Download All in One SEO Pack
- Google Sitemaps Generator - Google Sitemaps Generator will create a Google compliant Sitemap of your WordPress Blog. The Google sitemaps program is part of the “Google webmaster tools”.Currently homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archives are supported by this plugin. The priority of a post depends on its comments. More comments, higher priority! If you have external pages which don’t belong to your blog, you can also add them to the list.The XML file gets automatically rebuilt if you change/edit/create/publish a post and the plugin will automatically inform Google about changes via Google-Ping.An excellent article what Google Sitemaps is and how it can help you to get indexed by Google can be found at the searchenginewatch blog.
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Related Posts - Related posts will list out all related posts to an article which is helpful to your visitors when they are looking for specific information and want to read more on it. This also helps Search Engines to dig deeper into your blog.
Download Related Posts
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WWW Redirect - This plugin is useful for people like me who have different PageRanks for their www and non www versions of their domain name. Example: PR 5 for https://johntp.com and PR 3 for johntp.com.
The continuous plague of several pages being indexed using numerous variations of the same domain name has definately been experienced by most of us. In an attempt to remedy this extremely aggrivating issue; WWW-Redirect was born. Originating from the source of Matt’s no-www plug-in, www-redirect takes it a step or so further by allowing users to opt for different redirect settings. This plugin allows users to have more control over the uri in which their users access their blog. By doing so, you’re giving search engines and users a consistent link for accessing your content.
Download WWW Redirect
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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.
Download Permalink Redirect
That’s all for now. I will update this post whenever I find new Plugins. Till then have a look at my Collection of useful WordPress Plugins.
Do you know of any other WordPress Plugins that help to optimize Blogs for Search Engines?
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Posted on September 12th, 2006 | Category: SEO, WordPress Plugins |
Ashwin
September 12, 2006 at 5:56 pm
A good post!
Is the Head Meta Description plugin works on it’s own (provided a function is called - which most of the themes do)?
There r 4 options and the things just went thro my head.
You left off:
1. WWW Redirect
2. Permalink Redirect
Add these 2 also. your article will be perfect.
John T P
September 12, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Yes, Head Meta Description plugin works on it’s own.
Thank you for reminding me of WWW Redirect and Permalink Redirect
Thilak
September 13, 2006 at 4:00 pm
I would like to include Optimial Title to your list
No-WWW sets a 301 Redirect to all links with www prefix, this help you preserve your PageRank rather than spliting page rank into to different domains
John T P
September 13, 2006 at 4:13 pm
I did not include Optimial Title as SEO Title Tag does what it does and even more.
Thilak
September 13, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Ohh, I never knew That, Thanks for the hint, I’ll check it out
Thilak
September 13, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Hey what about Matt’s No-WWW plugin ??, Thats the best SEO plugin ever (I think, so)
John T P
September 13, 2006 at 11:27 pm
Yes, I have added it to the list
milo
September 17, 2006 at 8:05 am
Thank you for the list, some of this useful plugins i didn’t know yet.
Justin
September 25, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Appreciate being added to the list.
John T P
September 25, 2006 at 9:01 pm
You are welcome
Ashwin
September 26, 2006 at 12:01 am
I already have this WWW Redirect running, do I need to have this Matt’s no-www as well?
And for Head Meta Description we can manually add/edit the kw.
John T P
September 26, 2006 at 4:11 am
Ashwin- No, having WWW Redirect installed will do.
As for Head Meta Description, it will automatically pick up the first few words of a post as the meta description of the post.
I think you can also manually give description using $custom_desc_key, which I have not tried yet.
frank
October 17, 2007 at 9:59 pm
there is a company called wordsfinder that is going to lauch a new SEO plug in for wordpress.
The plugin will generate search engine friendly words for the page, automatically populate meta data, generates tags and add categories !
Watch the space !
Frank
Free lance SEO
Jonny
November 10, 2007 at 10:45 pm
check this out : http://www.wordsfinder.com/wordpress.php
pavan
March 14, 2008 at 8:08 pm
thanks for sharing
i really liked it
i have downloaded many of them
i will check here again for more plugins
Greg in San Diego
March 20, 2008 at 12:11 pm
This is great information, I need to start a blog on my site and hopefully it will really help me get some better traffic!
Paul Kenjora
June 24, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Would you mind adding Arkayne to your list of SEO options?
It is similar to the Related Post tag but fully automated and works across domains (optional) so your posts get relevant exposure from other sites.
I’m running it on my blog at the bottom of the post:
http://blog.awarelabs.com/?p=63
Oh and thanks for the post, I’ve included the All In One SEO pack and it works great.
Vic
June 25, 2008 at 12:03 am
Hi there,
Know anyone which plugin to use if I want only a part of the article to be displayed? If someone want to read more there will be a “read more” link…
On my blog right now is displayed all of article content and I don’t want this…
I’m talking about the latest 10 articles displayed on the first page of my blog.
I’m using Wordpress.
Can anyone help?
Fadsolute
July 3, 2008 at 6:59 am
Thanks for the tip. I have downloaded some of the plugins and hopefully it will boost my SE traffic. Keep up the good work!
Wordpress SEO
July 30, 2008 at 1:49 am
Does anyone know what WpReloaded does?
Papers
August 31, 2008 at 1:00 am
THanks.. The best list of wordpress seo plugins!
Daniel Dumas :: Mr Night Man
October 26, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Hi there thanks for this list of plugins for optimizating wordpress blog