Do you have WordPress based blog and want to know how to bring lots of targeted traffic to your blog from search engines or how to make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly. I’m aiming at answering all of such issues with this special guest post around WordPress Plugins for SEO. No doubt, content is still King on Google and other Search Engines. But we cannot expect great results from search engines on the basis of Good content only. We need to support that content by making our blog contents more search engine friendly.
If you search internet to find WordPress Plugins helping your blog more search engine optimized, you will end up seeing hundreds or even thousands of plugins available. It can create a confusing situation for you. What will be end result? You may end up installing too many WordPress plugins which will slow down the speed of your blog and will be total waste of time and efforts. What I’m going to do is share Some WordPress Plugins that I’m himself using on Bloggers Passion blog to make sure my blog stay ahead of all of my blog competitors on Search Engine Front.
10 WordPress Plugins for SEO of Blogs are :
1. Easy WP SEO
Easy WP SEO is a premium WordPress plugin which will takes care of all of On-Page stuff on your blog. I’m seeing good results on my blog after start using it to do various On-page activities on my blog. This plugin is coming with a one—time cost of $37 and can be used on as many websites you own. <Link>
2. Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemap plugin will automatically create XML Sitemap for your blog. This will help towards quicker indexing of your blog contents in major search engines including Google. We used to create XML sitemap for fast indexing of latest contents from our blog. We can do so by submitting our XML Sitemap URL to Major search Engines including Google, Yahoo and Bing. <Link>
3. SEO Friendly Images
This plugin will automatically make your blog images more optimized by adding alternative text with all of images used in your blog contents. After making your images more search engine friendly, you can expect getting more traffic on your blog from Search Engine’s regular search and their image search. <Link>
4. SEO Smart Links
This plugin can help you interlink your blog contents automatically in an optimized way. After installation of SEO Smart Links plugin, you can interlink your blog posts, pages, categories, tags etc. This plugin can be customized in a manner; links added through this plugin will look natural to human beings and search engine crawlers. <Link>
5. WP Smush.it
This is another amazing plugin helping you to make your blog more SEO friendly. This plugin will reduce the file size of all images uploaded on your WordPress Blog to great extent. Images taking less space to store on your server mean faster loading WordPress blog as speed is one of rankings factor these days on Google. <Link>
6. WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is another plugin to improve the performance of our WordPress blog and thus helping our blogs become more search engine friendly. It is one of most popular caching plugin in the market. <Link>
7. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
This plugin will help you add related posts towards end of a post on your blog. Availability of related posts with every post will send the necessary page rank, traffic and backlinks to linked blog posts on your blog. They also help towards lowering down of your blog bounce rate as they happen to improve different engagement metrics on your blog. <Link>
8. RSS Footer
RSS Footer plugin can help add a custom code of your choice in your RSS Feed’s footer section. So we can send targeted backlinks and traffic to targeted pages of our blog. Apart from this, you can improve visibility of your brand in Social Media Networks by adding links for them in RSS footer section. <Link>
9. Social Bookmarking Icons
There are plenty of plugins available to help us add various Social Bookmarking websites icons at post level on our blogs. I have been using Delicious Bookmark Button to show Delicious Icon with post counts and Plus One Plugin to show Google plus Icon with Votes count at Post level on Bloggers Passion blog.
10. Robots Meta
We can use Robots Meta tag to add various meta tags to our blog pages. With this plugin, we can add nofollow tag to unimportant links. We can prevent search engines from indexing certain type of our blog contents though this plugin. <Link>
This was the list of WordPress Plugins I’m using on Bloggers Passion with the intention to make it more optimized in the eyes of search engines. Are you using any Other SEO plugin on your WordPress blog, please share in the comments section below.
Great post Anil, I use most of these plugins on my WordPress blogs, there is another plugin I use for security and is worthwhile mentioning “Bulletproof Security” it is free and protects your .htaccess file form hackers.
Den thanks a lot for suggesting this plugin. I will try this plugin and lets hope after this my blog will be more secure against hackers.
I will totally agree with this plug-in “”Google XML Sitemaps”" which will save your lots of time and get better and quick result, This is very important now-a-days to increase your productivity in front of your readers.
Very true. I use this plugin for faster indexing of my blog contents on Google and other search engines
Nice List Anil, I prefer WP total Cache on WP super Cache but its just a preference. Easy WP SEO is by far the best on Page SEO tool and worth every penny..I am using it from long time and loving it….
I’m also satisfied with the performance of Easy WP SEO PLugin. Apart from this, you guys can try Keyword Winner SEO Plugin. It will be interesting to see how it works for you.
Hey Anil
I only use WP Super Cache in my blog and didn’t aware about rest of list indeed it seems helpful I hope we tried it in future why you didn’t include Comment Luv in that list.
No doubt, Comment Luv is another amazing SEO plugin for WordPress blogs. It helps us in getting lots of comments on our blogs as the the links available in comments section are all dofollow.
But the only problem you could have is you start getting lots of Spam or low quality comments after implementing Comment Luv plugin on your blog.
Agree Anil but we can resolved this with GASP and Akismet plugin.
I am using WordPress SEO by Yoast and it’s quite impressive and helped me a lot to gain some attraction in google first page :) and Easy WP SEO is all time favorite and i also recommend that one. thanks for sharing this list.
Have a good day.
Ya surely we can solve this problem with these plugins. But we end up installing too many plugins on our WordPress blog, will lower down its performance and thus will have negative impact in its rankings on Google at least as we all know website speed is now one of rankings factor on Google.
Really Great Post Anil. I using most of all. Wp-Sumus it having some Bugs in his new update.
That may be possible. But I’m using latest version of WP Smush.it and its working fine for me. You should give one more try to it by deleting it and installing a fresh new copy of this plugin.
I find this post very resourceful, I am using some of them. There is another plugin ravan tool which is also good. keep sharing with us.
Thanks a lot Shani for suggesting one for useful plugin for WordPress blog owners.
i think this post was good
It was an amazing experience to read such a wonderful article.
Great stuff! I’m bookmarking this page right now! Thanks Anil for sharing!
Great stuff and its neat what social media is doing in relation to google. Maybe wordpress will have a plugin for that soon! Thanks again for great content.
WP Robot is a great plugin .
Great stuff…go ahead